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trochee ([personal profile] trochee) wrote2010-08-08 05:39 pm

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A guy at HP claims to have proven P ≠ NP.

Somewhat shockingly (to me), the proof involves statistical models from Gibbs and Markov, which I know primarily as natural-language-processing tricks. So I actually recognize at least one of the limbs of the proof, but I'm not solid enough with it to even confirm whether that one leg holds up.

Nevertheless, I know this is a big deal in computer science theory.

[identity profile] the-macnab.livejournal.com 2010-08-09 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I had a similar reaction--holy crap, those are random graphs, the basis of P* models!