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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by thaumasiotes on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:40PM (#17105998)
> Most people perceive complexity as things they don't understand.

I don't think this is true. For example, as a math teacher, I couldn't do a very good job predicting how easy or difficult students would find particular problems. But I could easily predict which problems would be easier and which would be more difficult. I could do that even though I personally understood all the problems.

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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by csomar on Friday May 18, 2018 @09:27PM (#17106137)
I don't think difficulty is complexity. For example, the bitcoin mining protocol complexity is the same but the difficulty goes up or down.

I'll attribute difficulty to the energy required to resolve a system. For example, pulling weight. The complexity of the action is the same. But the difficulty depends on the weights to pull.

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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by thaumasiotes on Sunday May 20, 2018 @04:21PM (#17114565)
Complexity is difficulty of understanding. In the context of mathematical problems, that is the relevant kind of difficulty.
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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by heavenlyblue on Sunday May 20, 2018 @09:13AM (#17112555)
It seems you’re vastly misusing the words and their contexts here.
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