So many people (myself included!) are forever biased and ruined by the prejudices we acquired when we learned programming. "Simple" is hard.
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@djspiewak We're often burdened by strong prejudices moving between compsci and math re: whether to care about computational complexity.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@propensive I remember one of the first really complex formal proofs I ever wrote. I was uncomfortable because the case induction was O(k^n)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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@djspiewak Exactly! It's not that we dispute it's a perfectly valid proof; it's that sense of uneasiness about it, and clearly prejudice.
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