talk-data.com talk-data.com

Topic

Lance

file_format vector_db embeddings open_table_format data_lake

1

tagged

Activity Trend

3 peak/qtr
2020-Q1 2026-Q1

Activities

Showing filtered results

Filtering by: Lance Fortnow ×

In this week's episode, host Kyle Polich interviews author Lance Fortnow about whether P will ever be equal to NP and solve all of life's problems. Fortnow begins the discussion with the example question: Are there 100 people on Facebook who are all friends with each other? Even if you were an employee of Facebook and had access to all its data, answering this question naively would require checking more possibilities than any computer, now or in the future, could possibly do. The P/NP question asks whether there exists a more clever and faster algorithm that can answer this problem and others like it.