For any not in the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

I consider Andor to be in a class of its own in quality. The cinematography & writing are simply amazing; it's very clear that the show runners have something to say, and went to great lengths to bring that vision to the screen. Criminally underrated by the wider audience, I consider s1 to be in the ranks of the best tv shows I've seen, period, never mind just as star wars material.

Naturally, he thought it was a Graham Cracker.

"There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."

You've just made an enemy for life!

This song was the absolute bomb to play on drums in Rock Band. I really loved the snare / bass drum flow with the hats.

Dinosaur birds, eh? Maybe Sandhill Cranes -- those things are awesome and so cool in person.

I didn't see anything in the paper about the rotational speed of galaxies. Was that accounted for?

I guess I'm still not understanding it. Time to pour over the picture some more, see if we can't figure it out.

"Pray return to the waking sands" PTSD intensifies

I think you may be conflating something with the story of Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture (with its 1 million dollar prize), rejected the prize and basically told the math world to stuff it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

The German Zitteraale translates roughly to "{tremble/vibrate/shiver} eel"

The Apollo Beach manatee viewing center is actually pretty great, TBH. I've seen sharks, sting rays & a myriad of other aquatic life, while just chilling on the pier. Not to mention the many dozens of adorable floating potato-cows. I'd recommend checking it out if one's in the area during the cooler season.

"Whoa, good bible"

I don't have the source with me, but I recall a paper about listening to various languages under different signal/ noise thresholds. If I recall correctly, languages like German that have multiple declensions were about to better able to parse noisy samples because of the redundant information. Sorry for not having the source off hand though.

Person of Interest was a show that started episodic and evolved into an incredibly thrilling epic. Fuck the main actor though.

I wasn't expecting to be sad in this thread but there it is. "I am the very model of a scientist Salarian..."

"The minute your son leaves the house, does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee? It must be because of the Trans Menace!!"

I could see it in a modern take. With a capital T even!

For the purposes of OPs problem (P v NP), it considers not particular solutions, but general algorithmic approaches. Thus, we consider things as either Hard (exponential time, by size of input), or Easy (only polynomial time, by size of input).

A number of important problems fall into this general class of Hard problems: Sudoku, Traveling Salesman, Bin Packing, etc. These all have initial setups where solving them takes exponential time.

On the other hand, as an example of an easy problem, consider sorting a list of numbers. It's really easy to determine if a lost is sorted, and it's always relatively fast/easy to sort the list, no matter what setup it had initially.

There was an episode of PBS Space Time on the holographic principle in general recently, and I believe they've also discussed the black hole thing as well.