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1 [quote]just brute force some magic combinations and select the best?[/quote] 1 [quote]just brute force some magic combinations and select the best?[/quote]
2 Yes. 2 Yes.
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4 [quote]This should be possible for any function that is quick to evaluate.[/quote] 4 [quote]This should be possible for any function that is quick to evaluate.[/quote]
5 Exactly. Or where changing the function arguments makes it easy to evaluate the resulting function value (which is true for the current one). 5 Exactly. Or where changing the function arguments makes it easy to evaluate the resulting function value (which is true for the current one).
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7 [quote]And calculating standard deviation is just as easy as taking the average.[/quote] 7 [quote]And calculating standard deviation is just as easy as taking the average.[/quote]
8 Well, sadly it's not about being "hard" or "easy" but about "computationally expensive". Which the standard deviation ( if you calculate it on the go, it's still many sums, squares and a square root) undeniably is compared to subtracting a few numbers. 8 Well, sadly it's not about being "hard" or "easy" but about "computationally expensive". Which the standard deviation ( if you calculate it on the go, it's still many sums, squares and a square root) undeniably is compared to adding/subtracting a few numbers.