Given the title, I expected praise for the nap as a problem-solving tool.
Seriously. How many times have you crashed out on a knotty problem and awakened with a clear solution?
Glad that my superpower remains secret.
Seriously. How many times have you crashed out on a knotty problem and awakened with a clear solution?
Glad that my superpower remains secret.
It's the opposite that is usually happening to me: I go to sleep thinking I finally solved some problem. When I wake up, literally the first thought is a clear counter-example on which the solution does not work. It's frustrating.
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An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly a the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order additive terms."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220180215_The_Faste...
"Have you still not migrated to the stars? What's blocking you?".
Wu wei