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in theory salon, Oct 6 at 12:07, by heather

@vzn, I've started coding that factorization program - I made an error (not syntax) in my prime number finder, so I'm working on that, but otherwise its going pretty well. Thinking about how to simplify the factorization once I get it.

in theory salon, Oct 6 at 15:10, by vzn

@heather hi heather thx for dropping by, your attn/ interest/ ambition/ effort wrt learning difficult areas is impressive/ somewhat rare & wanted to help out/ assist over time. you can easily post code for comment on gist.github.com ... have a bunch of refs wrt shors algorithm need to write em up on my blog.

in theory salon, Oct 6 at 15:12, by vzn

Q: 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 that run in time, say, $n^{80}$, but the first is considered inefficient while the latter is effici...

in theory salon, 2 days ago, by heather

@vzn, Thank you for your encouragement! I read through the questions and answers on the question you linked too - very clear; thank you. Would you mind linking to your blog? My dad works on all sorts of stuff - not completely sure what all he does. I know he works with circuit design; he doesn't work with the optical stuff nearly as much anymore.

Unfortunately, I think that question I posted on physics has kind of been forgotten; I don't suppose you think people would answer it here or on computer science? If you also want, we could start a chat room just for the two of us. I don't mind ei…

in theory salon, 2 days ago, by vzn

@heather hey heather my blog link is in my SE profile, theres lots on QM/ coding etc. re your question, does it come from an exercise? better to point to that if possible

in theory salon, yesterday, by heather

@vzn, thanks for your response! I've already started looking at your blog a bit, and it is very interesting. No, the question does not come from an exercise, unfortunately; it is just a question of my own. Interesting article - I didn't realize that was how AI worked.

in theory salon, yesterday, by heather

Someone in physics chat helped me figure it out, so I no longer need the question answered. I didn't realize it was one four dimensional vector instead of two vectors - I wasn't quite thinking there. =)

in theory salon, 14 hours ago, by vzn

@heather cool! put it on gist.github.com when you get a chance & will take a look... its easy to cut and paste/ save versions. also recommend you try graphing results, theres some basic exercises to try when youre ready :)

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