The entire point of the article is that his original understanding of the “thing” was a misunderstanding, with a heavy emphasis on how his teachers led him to that misunderstanding.
Author used a rhetorical device that you seem to have missed.
The article brings with an incorrect premise, and then argues a different point.
The opening premise is: NP-hardness is easy in theory, hard in practice, the point made is that it’s easy in practice. But that premise is itself wrong: complexity theorists know that NP-hardness is in fact, hard in theory.
The article brings with an incorrect premise, and then argues a different point.
The opening premise is: NP-hardness is easy in theory, hard in practice, the point made is that it’s easy in practice. But that premise is itself wrong: complexity theorists know that NP-hardness is in fact, hard in theory.