alt Hacker NewsTo me, this reads like a profusion of empirical experiments without any cohesive direction or desire towards deeper understanding.
To me, this reads like a profusion of empirical experiments without any cohesive direction or desire towards deeper understanding.
Yah Stephen Wolfram is too often grandiose thereby missing the hard edges.
But in this case, given how hard P=NP is, it might create wiggle room for progress.
Ideally it would have gone on and said in view of lemma/proof/conjecture X, sampling enumerated programs might shine light on ... no doubt that'd be better.
But here I'm inclined to let it slide if it's a new attack vector.