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Like baloons ... stupid has the one hell of a hangover. Either he's trying to make the style mirror the content intentionally, or he just doesn't care much for standard English. I …

Totally not worth it, for you, for the poor processors, for anybody.

Clearly you're more motivated to win an argument on the internet than to keep $1500. That would seem to belie your argument.

> In particular, the level of math in academic computer science research made some progress with Knuth and since then has, in a word, sucked. Could you elaborate on this? As someon…

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I believe you mean Max-Cut can be 2 approximated with the trivial random algorithm. Min cut can be solved exactly, and that algorithm would give an expected n^2 approx factor (for …

This story seems to have at least the air of exaggeration around it. See http://www.csicop.org/si/show/bacteria_ulcers_and_ostracism_... for the history around the adoption of H. P…