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One of my favourite professors all through my research informed me this:
“Simply because your algorithm is inefficient, it doesn’t imply that the issue is onerous”
Which means that if you wish to clear up a no matter downside (straightforward or onerous), there’ll at all times 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 a substitute of utilizing Google Maps, you begin from your own home’s alley and check out all of the potential mixtures of the streets (north, south, west, and east). By the point you’ll arrive to work your organization is likely to be submitting chapter or having you fired.
Let’s attempt to be a bit extra formal. Let’s say that in no matter enterprise or engineering setting, you must discover the minimal or most of a perform. For instance, your organization has to maximise income from the gross sales of a given division. We name this perform f. The “strings” you pull, which means the choices that you could take to maximise the income is a vector x. You’ll be able to’t clearly…
