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hcslast Sunday at 11:22 AM1 replyview on HN

Well, yes, which is why they don't measure it your way, as it doesn't lead to discovering anything interesting about computation to have a shortcut like that. Or if they do it's part of a larger analysis, called an oracle machine.


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charcircuitlast Sunday at 5:48 PM

I am against statements like:

A: "X people don't know how to do Y"

B: "Why not do Z?"

A: "Z is too easy and boring so they actually added more restrictions to how you are allowed to do Y so that solution doesn't count"

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