How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim 160
An anonymous reader writes "Remember, about a month ago, when a researcher claimed he had a proof that P != NP? Well, the proof hasn't held up. But blogs and news sites helped spur a massive, open, collaborative effort on the Internet to understand the paper and to see if its ideas could be extended. This article explains what happened, how the proof was supposed to work, and why it failed."
Comment Re:Women aren't good programmers (Score 1) 847
Hah. yeah. They start screaming the same way they do when they see cockroaches!!
