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markwkw
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markwkw
7y ago
Thesis: Developers are good at estimating median time to finish tasks. But the tasks that take longer, in fact take much, much longer than estimated. E.g. Dev estimates that time to complete each of A, B, C tasks will be 2 days. In reality,
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8y ago
It seems that runtime should grow quadratically with the number of atoms. There are n^2 pairs of atoms interacting with each other, so n^2 interactions to account for in each step. Why is it that the simulation takes exponential time? Is th