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> At the time, my professor closed the final lecture with dramatic words (I'm paraphrasing slightly):

>>> And now you've learned that almost all interesting problems are undecidable and of the remaining ones, almost all are NP-hard. For the project of computer science, that puts the final nail in the coffin.

> Sheesh. Not sure if everyone got such a dire framing but that would explain.

Honestly, this is what makes computer science fun.



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