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Transcript
When do computer scientists program?
Programs whose existence is not at all clear
 Make a car that drives itself?
 Distinguish pictures of cats from dogs?
 Find broken bones in x-ray images?
 Synthesize pictures that look real?
Sometimes (often) we fail
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“If you aren’t occasionally failing, then you are
working on problems that are too easy.”
Maybe the problem is fundamentally hard
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No one could have solved it!
Correct compression algorithm?