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2:06 PM
@patrick87 What is your reasoning behind this late closure?
While we do have similar questions, I don't think a question about particularities of Landau notation abuse is suitable as witness for closing. The OP does make the mistake of summing Landau terms, but that's hardly their problem.
cc @Gilles
 
 
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vzn
3:24 PM
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Q: Are there any programmers in Star Trek?

ZibbobzStar Trek, for being a show about the distant future and extraordinarily high-tech equipment, sure seems to be lacking a lot of computer programmers. With technology as complex as it is, where are all the starship-based computer programmers responsible for preventing AI malfunctions aboard ship...

lol another high quality hot question that even mods would surely luv
found out the hard way they take their questions very seriously over there at Science Fiction & Fantasy... they quickly vaporized one of mine asking about 1st use of digital currency in scifi.... @#%& ouch, geez
however, an interesting site with some natural CS tiein given how prominent CS has been in scifi over the decades.
eg a computers tag
 
 
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vzn
7:29 PM
hot question currently begging for TCS expertise!
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Q: practical algorithms for np complete problems

user40780Inspired by: Conjecture on NP-completeness of tesselation of Wang Tile up to finite size And the practicality of this topic (solving tessellation on a lattice): coloring in lattice Computational approach deciding whether a set of Wang Tile could tile the space up to some size Reference for W...

here too!
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Q: Real-World Applications of Logic

AnschewskiWhen introducing logic in a first semester university course, the examples I use are often quite artificial. One example: One of three kids (Annie, Bob, Chris) has broken a window. Annies says "it was Bob", Bob says "it was Chris", Chris says "exactly one of them is lying". You know that all thre...

 
 
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9:52 PM
@DavidRicherby @Raphael Why did you reject this edit? It was correcting a problem with the post
 

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