note blokhead Theory of computation (Turing machines, automata, computational complexity, algorithms, NP completeness, big-O) is ... <ul> <li> The crowning achievement of humankind <li> Awesome; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCP_theorem|PCP theorem] makes me weak in the knees <li> Pretty cool; I've even applied some of those things in practice <li> Interesting, but hard to understand <li> Something I've always wanted to learn more about, but never have the time <li> Something I don't think I'll ever really understand <li> Irrelevant for me; Never used it, never will <li> In theory the same as practice, but in practice it's not^{[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra|*]} <li> Something I barely survived in school and never want to think about again <li> Best left to someone other than me <li> A necessary evil in computer science <li> A tactic employed by CS departments to make their students miserable <li> A bunch of useless, self-important, academic jibberish <li> Too impenetrable and abstract to even make up my mind </ul> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-137386"> <p> blokhead </div></div> 626523 626523