[spoonjim]

Norvig is a world level genius and he outdid Jefferies because of that. No shame in losing a basketball match to LeBron James.

[mjd]

Leaving Norvig out of it, it seems to me that there is some shame in taking a reasonably straightforward problem like this one, thrashing around with it for months or years without producing an effective solution, and then being unable to see that your methodology wasn't working.

If the account is accurate, this Jeffries guy wasn't getting the ball through the hoop, whether or not LeBron was around.

[paulmooreparks]

Exactly. This wasn't a game of one-on-one. It was two guys standing at foul lines taking shots, and one was sinking most of them.

[Sesse__]

A Sudoku solver isn't a hard problem. It's more like scoring 30% on a couple simple layup shots, then LeBron James comes along and dunks it out of the sky, but you still tell everyone that your way of training basketball is the best.