It is the automation of something a few people can take part of. Well, almost anybody can try, but only several will achieve any good result. Things are just too complicated, but the results are easily verifiable.
This class of mathematical problems: easy to understand, difficult to solve and easy to verify—it is a very important class.
So it is a very good benchmark for your abilities or your algorithms.
On the other hand, the packing problems in general, have a lot of practical uses every day. Here is a automated solution relentlessly pursuing unknown solutions, no human an no program has thought about them before .
A humble Windows PC program solving NP problems for you to admire and to study those solutions, if you want to.
It is the automation of something a few people can take part of...
So it is a very good benchmark for your abilities or your algorithms...
These are not justifications for posting this article to Less Wrong, as opposed to somewhere else. The article, while interesting to me, is not about the art and science of human rationality. Downvoted.
Also, note that we have threaded comments—it looks like the parent was intended to be a reply to gwern’s comment.
It is the automation of something a few people can take part of. Well, almost anybody can try, but only several will achieve any good result. Things are just too complicated, but the results are easily verifiable.
This class of mathematical problems: easy to understand, difficult to solve and easy to verify—it is a very important class.
So it is a very good benchmark for your abilities or your algorithms.
On the other hand, the packing problems in general, have a lot of practical uses every day. Here is a automated solution relentlessly pursuing unknown solutions, no human an no program has thought about them before .
A humble Windows PC program solving NP problems for you to admire and to study those solutions, if you want to.
These are not justifications for posting this article to Less Wrong, as opposed to somewhere else. The article, while interesting to me, is not about the art and science of human rationality. Downvoted.
Also, note that we have threaded comments—it looks like the parent was intended to be a reply to gwern’s comment.