[CallMeIshmael]

mad,

v nice posting in this thread


though, I think I might take issue w/:


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So there's an illusion of "clustering" if your scale is ordinary (I don't know the terminology, but if each interval is n instead of 10^n). Though I think the growth is still very slow after the 1-year point.

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Things Im interested in tend to grow factorially. So even in a log scale we will still see some serious growth for those problems. This could be a function of my interests though, and the whole set of programs may not tend to show that growth pattern.


Also, at least for right now, the difference between something like 10k and 10 million years to solve is, for intents and purposes, trivial. In as much as neither can produce the data we want, and thus fails at its sole purpose. (obviously, to a certain extent, Im taking a selfish viewpoint w/ that statement, since its reasonable to believe that, at some point, those programs will be runable in normal time, and, of course, at some point the difference will no longer be trivial).