Questions tagged [terminology]
Questions about how specific notions have to be understood as well as conventions of notation.
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Why polynomial time is called “efficient”?
Why in computer science any complexity which is at most polynomial is considered efficient?
For any practical application(a), algorithms with complexity $n^{\log n}$ are way faster than algorithms ...
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The essential difference between spiking neural networks and earlier generation ANN's
I have been studying Spiking Neural Networks online from various papers, mainly Maass (1997). I am not entirely sure I understand what makes SNN's pulse-code in contrast to earlier ANNs which are ...
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How does one know which notation of time complexity analysis to use?
In most introductory algorithm classes, notations like $O$ (Big O) and $\Theta$ are introduced, and a student would typically learn to use one of these to find the time complexity.
However, there are ...
