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One of my favourite professors all through my research advised me this:
“Simply because your algorithm is inefficient, it doesn’t imply that the issue is laborious”
Which means if you wish to remedy a no matter drawback (simple or laborious), there’ll all the time be an strategy that’s naive sufficient to be extraordinarily inefficient. For instance, let’s say you must go to work in a brand new office. As an alternative of utilizing Google Maps, you begin from your home’s alley and check out all of the potential combos of the streets (north, south, west, and east). By the point you’ll arrive to work your organization may be submitting chapter or having you fired.
Let’s attempt to be a little bit extra formal. Let’s say that in no matter enterprise or engineering setting, you must discover the minimal or most of a operate. For instance, your organization has to maximise income from the gross sales of a given division. We name this operate f. The “strings” you pull, that means the selections you can take to maximise the income is a vector x. You possibly can’t clearly…