What's the hardest thing in theoretical Computer Science?

>>8222761
naming and cache invalidation.

>>8222761
coming to the realization that your field is a meme

>>8222761
Pointers

>>8222761
P=NP

>>8222761
hygeine

>>8222761
His dick before the therapy

>>8222761
Is it plugged in? Okay, plug it in.

>>8222769
meh

>>8222761
Hard problems.
>>8222771

>>8222765
As someone who is interested in the field, would you care to elaborate?

>>8222782

> what is theoretical computer science

>>8222815
>As someone who is interested in the field, would you care to elaborate?
CS being a meme is a popular meme on /sci/.

>>8222826
this.

>>8222761
staying in closet

>>8222826
Using a space between meme arrows and text.

>>8222761
Probably programming language theory given it's heavy use of advanced type theory, category theory, and a menagerie of logics. Categorical semantics is up there too.

>>8222761
>>8222763

Lol, There's this recurring joke in computer sci that commonly gets used in presentations. It goes something like:
>The two hardest things in computer science are
>1. Naming things
>2. [some ridiculously hard thing related to the topic at hand]

Finding a faster algorithm for any of the problems solved by current algorithms is hard.

>>8222761
Dealing with the retards in theoretical Computer Science

>>8223229

none of those are hard. you're just easily impressed by jargon.

>>8223265

this is hard.

>>8223471
>I don't know what it is so it must be jargon and not hard.
lol, educate yourself, son. Here is a babby intro to the topic.

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/partial+combinatory+algebra

In order from least to greatest:
>natural language processing
>machine learning
>P=NP?
>making Windows not suck

being a meme

>>8223229
>>8222826
>>8222893

ITS A REAL ABSTRACT KIND OF COMPUTER

>>8222761
quicksort

>>8223234
The hardest thing is naming and off-by-one errors

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making money

>>8223506
>partial combinatory algebra

L-O-L. Was I supposed to be impressed? You could have at least shown me the paper you co-authored with van Oosten so you could have something to brag about instead of just flaunting terminology.

>>8224183
>gets shown self described babby math.
>L-O-L. Was I supposed to be impressed?
If you believe you were supposed to be impressed then you have failed. Hurry and commit Sudoku.

>>8222815
>As someone who is interested in the field, would you care to elaborate?

The problem isn't with CS itself, Computer Science its a great field, the problem is with the people, its crowded with normalfags wannabes that are in either for the "easy money" or because they want to make a videogame.

If you want easy money go to finances, if you want to make videogames take some course specifically designed for that, there are plenty.

I swear to god this normalfags, computing used to be a beautiful reduced niche 20 years ago, oh I wish I had gone to uni back then.

making flash safe

so hard the industry gave up

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>>8224219
The video game spergs are the worst. Literal neckbeards who can't even wrap their heads around simple algebra.

>Why do I have to learn about formal languages? I just came hear to make video games.

Every fucking time.

>>8224219
Ehh, the guys in it for the easy money are nuisances but if that's what they want to do then so be it. It's not like these are the guys who will be going onto grad school or taking the spots of the more research oriented jobs.

The videogame guys are indeed the worst.

>>8222826
Algorithm complexity and machine architecture are solid theoretical areas of study. Numerical analysts need these guys if they want to keep progressing.

>>8224219
>normalfags
Mine is crowded with pig disgusting bronies and fedoras who refuse to shower and creep on every female that has ever taken a comp sci course.

I agree that they're retards too, my feel is that most of them just got into the major because of "I just wanna make video games" mentality. I don't consider them comp sci students though, at least not anymore than finance/actuary science/school teacher people are to be considered math students.

>>8222761
using electricity and electronics for the media of the computer, which would give it speed.
using base-2, or the binary number system, which would simplify its computational process.
using regenerative memory, which would reduce the cost of building the machine.
computing with direct logical action rather than enumeration, which would give it increased accuracy.

All of this was achieved by Atanasoff's computer, the ancestor of the first general purpose electric computer .