blood flow to the brain (was)

Nick Vargish nav at adams.patriot.net
Mon Feb 3 07:48:27 EST 2003


"Brandon Van Every" <vanevery at 3DProgrammer.com> writes:

> Pursuing intractable problems shows a lack of focus, and indeed a lack of
> intelligence if the problem can indeed be shown to be intractable.

Ah, but so many "provably intractable" problems have been solved by
people who love a challenge. Probably people a lot like Laura.  If
humans gave up on a problem domain just because they looked
impossible, we'd still be using stone knives and bearskins (or C++).

Everytime I read this:

> 20% of the world is real.

I think: "The other 80% is integer."

Nick

-- 
# sigmask.py  ||  version 0.2  ||  2003-01-07  ||  Feed this to your Python.
print reduce(lambda x,y:x+chr(ord(y)-1),'Ojdl!Wbshjti!=obwAqbusjpu/ofu?','')





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