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I spent way too long staring at figure 1, before realizing that they're not using the word "permutation" in the way that people with exposure to CS or discrete
by abeppu 10y ago
I spent way too long staring at figure 1, before realizing that they're not using the word "permutation" in the way that people with exposure to CS or discrete math would use it. They're assigning a "neural clique" (possibly not exactly a clique in the graph theory sense) to each subset in the powerset of inputs, and then ignoring the empty set. _Now_ 2^i - 1 makes sense; ordering does not matter to the authors.
- harryjo 10y agoIt seems like you are saying that the headline is nonsense because the authors of the article are using non-standard meanings for their words. Any system with optional components has a factor of 2^n in its count of configurations -- each optional component might be absent. That's an interesting fact of math, not of any particular system.
- abeppu 10y agoI am not saying it is nonsense -- just that it was hard for me to understand their claim, in part due to a background that I expect many other readers here share.