I read through the wikipedia but it didn't really click with me and I felt it definitely wasn't written for a five year old :-)
In my defence I wanted to hear how others would state the problem and was afraid of biasing the response by leading too much with what I may or may not correctly know. Though I had tried to provide some direction with my questions that I hoped would be addressed by others.
I thought the question was in line with the general HN guidelines of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
Could someone explain P != NP to me like I'm literally five :-)What is P? What is NP?Why and what part of it is nondeterministic and deterministic? How does verification play into it?Does this only apply to decision (yes/no) problems or can it be other problems?What does an equal to and not equal to relationship mean? Why does it matter?Also what is NP-Hard? What is NP-Complete?Thank you!
What is your workflow for developing, testing and versioning SQL queries?My company has data pipelines that query a number of databases, such as MySQL and BigQuery. The SQL queries are typically read from a file or inlined as a string.It seems to be challenging to develop, test and reuse SQL queries as you would code in programming languages like Python or Java.For example, I'd like to...
[1] I use a password manager, but avoid browser add-ons or extensions to limit the surface I expose my manager such as on work machines. Besides there being the occasional exploit targeting those browser add-ons or extensions.
What do you all do?