Escher Logic

This guy on the internet blogged about the (questionable) conundrum as to how humans can sometimes efficiently compute ridiculously difficult (i.e. NP) problems with ease, where computers struggle.

What followed was a torrid debate with comments at ten paces.

One thing missed by the anal retentive introverts that are interested in this shit is that computers are programmed to find exact answers.

Humans, on the other hand, go for ‘near enough is good enough’.

What we do is relax the requirement for exactness of a solution to accommodate for the complexity of the problem.

I just did it then.