G'day all. Tim Chevalier wrote:
The only thing that computers can do that humans can't is to work without getting bored.
Quoting Bulat Ziganshin
ok, please compute 2^2^30 before continuing discussion. it seems that you just use "i'm too bored" and "i can't" as synonyms.
No, I don't think he did. But I also disagree with the original statement. A computer can get "bored" if it has to, but you do have to take a broad definition of "bored". It usually only comes up in the context of real-time systems or problems for which only worst-case exponential algorithms are known. If the system is in danger of getting overloaded, or the worst-case is in danger of being triggered, systems can be programmed to start approximating, skimming or even dropping unimportant work. Cheers, Andrew Bromage