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pixl97
0y ago
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Yep, there are plenty of things that aren't computable without burning all the entropy in the visible universe, yet if you exchange it with a heuristic you can get a good enough answer in polynomial time.
Weather forecasts are a good example of this.
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betenoire
0y ago
I understand there are probabilities and shortcuts in weather forecasts.... but what part is non-deterministic?
josefx
0y ago
Most heuristics are still deterministic.
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