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Re:Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed... by me_again on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:46PM (#16943728)
Verifying a solution is harder than producing one. Identifying a flaw in a solution is easier than either.
Re:Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed... by kreetx on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:52PM (#16943766)
Not sure what you are referring to -- at least in the P/NP problem complexity classification verifying the solution is easy, coming up is P/NP-hard, i.e hard.
Re:Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed... by mygo on Friday April 27, 2018 @06:38PM (#16944988)
So if I gave you a flawless solution to a sudoku problem, would you tell me that it was harder for you to verify it than it was for the solution to be produced?
Re:Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed... by twodave on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:53PM (#16945546)
I had to do exactly this in a practical coding interview. Fun was had.
Re:Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed... by ben_jones on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:24PM (#16943995)
I think that really depends on the problem space. If I had to hire a sales team to increase revenue, then I hire them and check the revenue numbers (with basic accounting for other secondary variables), its pretty straight forward to validate.