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anongraddebt on Oct 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

This.

But, maybe we can go even higher such that the material has zero pragmatic pay-off?

agumonkey on Oct 5, 2019 [–]

How much of research has zero pragmatic pay-off .. until it does ?

-- J. McCarthy circa. 1958

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