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Raphael
Raphael
1:11 PM
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Q: Why can I look at a graph and immediately find the closest point to another point, but it takes me O(n) time through programming?

AriLet me clarify: Given a scatterplot of some given number of points n, if I want to find the closest point to any point in the plot mentally, I can immediately ignore most points in the graph, narrowing my choices down to some small, constant number of points nearby. Yet, in programming, given a...

algorithms computer-vs-human
This is slowly becoming ridiculous... still for not protecting, @Gilles?
 
Gilles
Gilles
1:41 PM
@Raphael I don't see any really crappy answers, but duplicates are cropping up
I have a high-scoring answer so I could count as conflicted. Feel free to protect if you want.
 
 
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vzn
vzn
10:53 PM
24 hours ago, by Raphael
Graphs may not be too interesting for showing-off purposes since they tend to look boring, visually.
graphs as boring looking?!? oh geez
lol
beg to differ... graphs are some of the coolest math objects visualizable.... =D
recently was playing with graphviz large graph module... gotta blog about it sometime
asked about graph viz software on software rec site recently & ofc it got quickly on hold closed
(se again working as designed)
 
Elton
Elton
11:12 PM
hey room
 
vzn
vzn
11:27 PM
hey
 

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