Am I the only one who thinks this is total bullshit? I know diddly about protein folding but in no way does this sound like a problem so mystifyingly difficult that one can't quickly devise an algorithm that will beat a thumb twiddling human, even if run on crappiest hardware. Someone please tell me where I'm going stupid.
He somehow failed to notice that J.K. Rowling doesn't produce anything either, she just takes the alphabet that someone else produced, takes the letters from it and arranges them in different ways. Bah!
This is the kind of fantasy bullshit NASA was peddling before they came up with global warming. Anybody cares to guess what will be current thirty years from now?
Last year's NYR was to quit smoking. A year later I'm happy to report I've been smoke free for a year and am now actually disgusted by the smell of smoke.
So this year's resolution is to focus on making a bunch of mobile games and make a million by this time next year. I figure since I'm on a roll...