When supercooled, various liquids do not have enough time to "compute"
their true global minima and may veer towards locally preferred
structures that, due to geometrical constraints, cannot tile (flat)
space. We will show how this may lead to glassy dynamics and very
unusual thermodynamics. We will also discuss the inverted problem and
illustrate how by removing constraint, we may better solve hard
NP-complete problems.
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