Can somebody please tell me about the general opinion on Plotnikov's work on "P=NP?" Thanks, Ralf Schindler...
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Ralf-Dieter Schindler
rds@...
Jun 1, 2001 4:19 pm
Can somebody please tell me about the general opinion on Plotnikov's work on "P=NP?" Thanks, Ralf Schindler...
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vznuri@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:52 pm
hmm.. silence on "silent..." (I am getting pretty handy with the yahoogroups search engine. what a killer app feature. fast & effective.) SB wrote a nice...
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Stas Busygin
busygin@...
Jun 1, 2001 8:15 pm
... No, the algorithm always halts in ptime. However, usually delivers a solution quite far from optimum. ... That was a hasty conclusion. The third point...
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kvanette@...
Jun 2, 2001 12:39 am
... Vlad, sometimes it's hard to tell if you're joking or not. I thought for sure that this topic would show up in the urban legends archive, but alas no. ...
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vznuri@...
Jun 2, 2001 6:40 am
so KLVE, you venture the first simultaneously brave & timid opinion other than my own. let me write a little msg in the spirit of a famous one. no, virginia,...
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Francisco Antonio Doria
fadoria2001@...
Jun 2, 2001 7:44 am
Just a comment: Black-Scholes is a kind of reaction-diffusion equation. chico ...
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R. Sinoradzki
sinoradz@...
Jun 2, 2001 8:25 am
Hi, I am looking for a mailing-list/newsgroup/message-board about quantum computation, where also absolute beginners are welcome. We are some students who have...
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Anatoly D. Plotnikov
aplot@...
Jun 2, 2001 12:11 pm
Hello everyone! ... Thank you, Vlad, for the last reference. I did not know about it earlier. Funnily. This paper is written on level of authors from Slashdot....
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Stas Busygin
busygin@...
Jun 2, 2001 3:25 pm
Hello Anatoly! ... I've already done all what I wanted. I submitted this site to crank.net and it was immediately listed there, in a number of categories...
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kvanette@...
Jun 2, 2001 4:43 pm
I'm a little reluctant to reply to this, only because I don't really want to extend this thread. But let me just say a few things and then this will be my...
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vznuri@...
Jun 2, 2001 6:45 pm
re: anatoly's paper. thanks for the post, AP. ... AP, the Vollmer ref is big news to me. is it written in german? it would be fantastic to get a URL to an ...
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vznuri@...
Jun 2, 2001 7:15 pm
hi KLVE your joke about charter boundaries, well I take it both halfheartedly & seriously. the best way for a thread to die is to not reply to it. if you think...
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vznuri@...
Jun 2, 2001 7:28 pm
re "X". KLVE is one of those who objected to my treatment of X, and is still using it as a means of poking me. fair enough. let the record show KLVE raised...
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Anatoly D. Plotnikov
aplot@...
Jun 3, 2001 5:23 am
Hello Vlad, ... Yes, Vollmer's paper is written in German. URL of the journal is http://www.heise.de/ct/. But article not published on web site. Anatoly...
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vznuri@...
Jun 4, 2001 3:51 pm
hi R Sinoradzki, welcome to the list. dont let the just-a-teeny-crazy moderator scare you away =) was waiting to see if anyone else responded.. if others know...
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kvanette@...
Jun 4, 2001 7:18 pm
Here's a website for a CS grad student that has some very nice quantum computing reference material and link pages, included a couple of links to mailing...
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vznuri@...
Jun 5, 2001 1:35 am
some more really penetrating & thought-provoking comments from S, my reply in a bit (it deserves a mini essay for sure!!). btw S has a PhD in nonlinear...
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R. Sinoradzki
sinoradz@...
Jun 5, 2001 9:47 am
Hi, Thank you very much for your replies. I'll try out the links that you mentioned. Before I asked here, I started with an introductory paper from Peter W....
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vznuri@...
Jun 5, 2001 4:49 pm
hi S, very incisive analysis at some of the issues at the core of the turing test. the turing test has inspired mountains of philosophical writing and even...
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Casey Hawthorne
caseyh@...
Jun 5, 2001 5:29 pm
Some said to me that the three laws of thermodynamics could be summed up as follows: - can't win - can't break even - can't get out of the game Analogously: ...
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Francisco Antonio Doria
fadoria2001@...
Jun 5, 2001 5:59 pm
... Some said to me that the three laws of thermodynamics could be summed up as follows: - can't win - can't break even - can't get out of the game ...
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vznuri@...
Jun 5, 2001 11:39 pm
let me balance out some critical comments on turing's test & the mind essay. while it has some almost comically logically weak and deflectionary aspects.. ...
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Jaffray Woodriff
jaffray48@...
Jun 6, 2001 3:05 am
Hello all, A algorithm which could possibly begin to attempt AI would definitely need the ability to measure it's own performance across virtually any set of...
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David Vivash
pma98dav@...
Jun 6, 2001 1:01 pm
Hi all, I've personnally always felt uneasy around people who believed they could get "true" intelligence out of a machine, without ever defining what such a...
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vznuri@...
Jun 6, 2001 4:30 pm
hi JW.. haha thanks for giving me a convenient excuse to rant. it is true I dont know much about ben goertzel & dont want to jump to any conclusions. however ...
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vznuri@...
Jun 6, 2001 11:22 pm
just look what I turn up when the list traffic doesnt keep me busy!! wow ryan. I had no idea. you've sure been holding out on "us".. is it just because I'm...
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vznuri@...
Jun 7, 2001 3:56 pm
ok guys, if no one has anything to say, its more open season for a little while =) well not much reaction to my post on sw4qw, but this is not surprising. I do...
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elijah wright
elw@...
Jun 7, 2001 4:10 pm
... ehh. this is the essential problem with (crappy) scientific research methods. if you're focusing purely on content, and not *also* paying attention to...
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vznuri@...
Jun 7, 2001 4:50 pm
here are some candidates for your consideration as "real conspiracies". with a little stretching, these actually relate to the theory-edge. * * * I posted on...
