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compiler-guyyesterday at 10:06 PM1 replyview on HN

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.


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Ar-Curunirtoday at 2:14 AM

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.

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