/r/badcomputerscience
Did someone prove P=NP using quantum physics? Is the Halting problem easily solveable using one weird trick? Is the singularity apparently going to kill us all? Then it belongs in this subreddit.
Badcomputerscience is the /r/badscience of computer science. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, check out /r/badscience and read through a few threads. The basic objective of /r/badcomputerscience is to identify, dissect, and discuss some of the misconceptions about our field that we see on a day to day basis, both here on Reddit and elsewhere in the media.
RULES:
1: ALL submissions must include an explanation as to why it's bad computer science. Ideally, the un-knowledgeable individual should be able to step in here and learn why what they said was wrong.
2: ALL links to content on Reddit must be non-participation (np) links. Simply replace the "www" of the URL with "np".
3: Harassment, insults, slurs, or any other offensive material will result in an insta-ban. PLEASE be civil
/r/badcomputerscience
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 1 posts:
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 1 posts:
Sightings of ghost cars are probably because of early self driving cars tests.
Sightings of ghost cars goes back about as far as cars being a common thing. And this doesn't explain any of the other phantom vehicles people reportedly see, some of which are older than digital computers.
I'm at the point in my life where I fully embrace the fact that I do not understand how quantum computing and communication works. At this point if you told me it was literally just magic, I would probably agree with you and move on my day. Having said that, I kind of doubt this powerful magic is able to cause everyone everywhere to forget that New Zealand is south of Australia, send you and a bunch of random people on reddit to a new dimension where some movie called Shazaam was never made, or put you in a timeline where Nelson Mandela died in prison.
Just, please, get mental help.
Here's an archive link to that forum post. The premise is that ancient Jews worshiped the Roman god Saturn as "El" (but no, not really, a bunch of random English words include "el" in them, El was represented by a black box (???), and there are a bunch of random places with large black boxes.
Demon's literally exist, and AI is a perfect way of holding them
OK, "AI" is a program, which means that it's a series of instructions. I guess you could say that the demon will, like, port itself as a module in the AI's code, or something? Maybe they're using "AI" as a term including hardware, but then you'd just be saying that "you could overwrite the program's code and replace it with a demon", but then... why would you need the AI?
What I'm saying is that I have questions you guys.
Incompetence isn't the reason for shoddy operating systems; money is.
Yeah, OK, modern operating systems have 45-85 millions of lines of code, but sure, sure buddy.
Sorry, but there's just nothing else to say about this.