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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 laborious”
Which means that if you wish to clear up a no matter drawback (simple or laborious), there’ll at all times be an strategy that’s naive sufficient to be extraordinarily inefficient. For instance, let’s say you need to go to work in a brand new office. As an alternative of utilizing Google Maps, you begin from your home’s alley and take a look at 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 need to 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, that means the selections which you could take to maximise the income is a vector x. You possibly can’t clearly…