The limits of computation and judging by approximation
The clock that trades thinking time for preparation time When does the cost of finding a better answer become part of the answer?
What this series asks
- Have the feasibility of the current solution and the proof of its optimality been kept separate?
- What execution and preparation resources does the extra computation take away?
- At what upper bound does the computation that chooses a strategy return to an actual solution?
The questions
1 · 2026 · Right now, 8 hours before the deadline to finish preparing the 2026 exhibitionTime to find more layouts and time to keep for preparationSplit 10:1
2 · 2034 · 14 days until the booking for shared computation resources next quarter is confirmed for 2034Should computation be spent in advance for repeated layout requests?Split 9:2
3 · 2182 · 48 hours until computation allocation is locked for this inquiry cycle in 2182The compute share for choosing a search strategySplit 10:1
4 · 2029 · 40 minutes until the next shared resource allocationIsolating a suspect task also stops another organization's safe computingAll 13 judgments agree