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Re: [ontolog-forum] Current Semantic Web Layer pizza (was ckae)

To: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Chris Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:58:03 -0500
Message-id: <20070917235803.GK27272@xxxxxxxx>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:32:56PM -0400, John Sowa wrote:
> Chris,
>
> We don't disagree about the facts, but about how to present them to
> people who raise the issue.
>
> There are two facts that are equally important:
>
>  1. Certain kinds of problems, called NP complete, take
>     an exponential amount of time to solve exactly (at
>     least with known techniques).
>
>  2. But if an approximate solution is acceptable, many
>     of those problems can be solved quite efficiently.
>
> I've seen lots of discussions that tell readers point #1,
> but fail to mention point #2.
>
> I believe that is educational malpractice.    (01)

Points taken.    (02)

-chris    (03)


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