Avoiding Brain Rot.
Sometimes it's just refreshing to learn something new, even if initially most of it goes way over your head. Keeps your brain from rotting away in the usual, zero-signal corporate environment.
In computer science, online algorithm is something that processes partial input "on-the-fly" as it becomes available, without having the full knowledge of the expected input set. Makes some problems a bit trickier to solve when you can't see to the future.
Adaptive algorithms are algorithms trying to adjust to the changing input to find the sweet spot of best performance.
Adaptive algorithms for online optimization are therefore trying to tackle situations that are infuriatingly fuzzy from the computer programmer's point of view. First of all you don't have the full input data to work from and can't see what's coming in the future to optimize the algorithm. Secondly, many adaptive algorithms are actually quite slow to tackle changing conditions -- they tend to get stuck in the known working solutions for a long time, even when the input data drastically changes. Or in other words, they look back to history for a long, long time.
Presentation courtesy of Google.
In computer science, online algorithm is something that processes partial input "on-the-fly" as it becomes available, without having the full knowledge of the expected input set. Makes some problems a bit trickier to solve when you can't see to the future.
Adaptive algorithms are algorithms trying to adjust to the changing input to find the sweet spot of best performance.
Adaptive algorithms for online optimization are therefore trying to tackle situations that are infuriatingly fuzzy from the computer programmer's point of view. First of all you don't have the full input data to work from and can't see what's coming in the future to optimize the algorithm. Secondly, many adaptive algorithms are actually quite slow to tackle changing conditions -- they tend to get stuck in the known working solutions for a long time, even when the input data drastically changes. Or in other words, they look back to history for a long, long time.
Presentation courtesy of Google.
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