Comment by nuc1e0n
10 hours ago
What makes you think your brain isn't also brute forcing potential solutions subconciously and only surfacing the useful results?
10 hours ago
What makes you think your brain isn't also brute forcing potential solutions subconciously and only surfacing the useful results?
Because I can solve problems that would take the age of the universe to brute force, without waiting the age of the universe. So can you: start counting at 1, increment the counter up to 10^8000, then print the counter value.
Prolog: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...
You and me instantly: 10^8000
There's a whole lot of undecidable (or effectively undecidable) edge cases that can be adequately covered. As a matter of fact, Decidability Logic is compatible with Prolog.
Can you try calculating 101 * 70 in your head?
I can absolutely try this. Doesn't mean i'll solve it. If i solve it there's no guarantee i'll be correct. Math gets way harder when i don't have a legitimate need to do it. This falls in the "no legit need" so my mind went right to "100 * 70, good enough."
Or you could do (100 + 1)*70 => 100*70 + 1*70
I think therefore I am calculator?
Very easy to solve, just like it is easy to solve many other ones once you know the tricks.
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Completely missing the point on purpose?
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Um, that's really easy to do in your head, there's no carrying or anything? 7,070
7 * 101 = 707 * 10 = 7,070
And computers don't brute-force multiplication either, so I'm not sure how this is relevant to the comment above?
I think it is very relevant, because no brute-forcing is involved in this solution.
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It’s almost like you’re proving the point of his reply…
Just intuition ;)
human brains are insanely powerful pattern matching and shortcut-taking machines. There's very little brute forcing going on.
Your second sentence contradicts your first.
Pray tell how it contradicts the first.
Just note: human pattern matching is not Haskell/Erlang/ML pattern matching. It doesn't go [1] through all possible matches of every possible combination of all available criteria
[1] If it does, it's the most powerful computing device imaginable.
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