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Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by trolor on Monday December 05, 2016 @10:04AM (#13105727)
>One of the first things you learn in Computer Science is that not all problems can be solved with a computer.

Oh ... could you elaborate? I think my cut-rate, community college degree skipped that part :) it seems like a useful thing to know!

Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by madgar on Monday December 05, 2016 @10:20AM (#13105837)
I assume skywhopper is referring to undecidable and uncomputable problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem
Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by m0th87 on Monday December 05, 2016 @10:36AM (#13106024)
I don't really get how that's a critique of the ability to represent complexity on a computer well. After all, isn't a human mind constrained by P ?= NP in the same way as a computer architecture?
Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by fooker on Monday December 05, 2016 @10:47AM (#13106133)
We do not know that actually. While it might be true that classical mechanics is the only machine behind our brain, evolution is just as likely to have stumbled into a quantum computer design we have not yet discovered in the last billion years.
Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by Filligree on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:17AM (#13106436)
Quantum computers still can't solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, sadly. Take a look at the BQP complexity class; it's only a subset of NP.
Re:What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it by cr0sh on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:14PM (#13107704)