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		dawgr on Dec 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supercomputer Use at the BGI in China to Study the... News from the future: P != NP Does that mean that we shouldn't work towards a proof? Are you implying the Chinese shouldn't bother investigating this because it has no value?

bh23ha on Dec 5, 2010 [–]

No I'm implying we should favour basic scientific research over specific narrowly focused research.

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