The Caf\'e in Amsterdam: When the Incumbent Becomes the Oracle

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.13393v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A field can reformulate its computations freely exactly where its demand is stated independently of any incumbent implementation, and finds itself unable to when the incumbent's own output has quietly become the specification. This note offers that observation as a lens on computational reformulation for modern accelerators, where posing a problem in a hardware-friendly form can yield large speed and energy gains, but only if a replacement can be judged at all. Building on the test-oracle problem (Weyuker; Barr et al.), on requirements engineering's notion of implementation bias (Zave and Jackson), and on the case for judging approximate designs by acceptability rather than numerical proximity (Felzmann et al.), it names the patholo