Oh look, at the age of 29, I did an NP-complete. 16 years ago. That makes me 45 years old. How did I know about NP-complete on 12-15-2000 when Wikipedia wasn’t invented until 01-15-2001 ? Well, I learned about it in an article physically mailed to me a few weeks beforehand by a professor that wasn’t mine that I talked to a few times 10 years PRIOR to that, about solving the Minesweeper problem and a $100,000 prize. On it he stuck a post-it note that said, “If anybody can solve this, you can! Go get your $100,000!” I might change a few words of my answer today but not much in my way of thinking has changed. I just can refine it a little better. I never submitted it because it’s not the ‘kind of answer’ they’d want. Even with refinements I could make today with 16 years more learning I still wouldn’t submit it because they still wouldn’t like it :)

Oh look, at the age of 29, I did an NP-complete.
16 years ago.
That makes me 45 years old.

How did I know about NP-complete on 12-15-2000 when Wikipedia wasn’t invented until 01-15-2001 ?

Well, I learned about it in an article physically mailed to me a few weeks beforehand by a professor that wasn’t mine that I talked to a few times 10 years PRIOR to that, about solving the Minesweeper problem and a $100,000 prize. On it he stuck a post-it note that said, “If anybody can solve this, you can! Go get your $100,000!”

I might change a few words of my answer today but not much in my way of thinking has changed. I just can refine it a little better. I never submitted it because it’s not the ‘kind of answer’ they’d want.

Even with refinements I could make today with 16 years more learning I still wouldn’t submit it because they still wouldn’t like it 🙂

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