What’s true for jealous lovers and frustrated parents also
applies to nanoscale cogs and wheels and environmental regulations: Cutting
some slack sometimes gives better results than being too strict.
Giovanni Volpe, a physicist at the Institute for Photonic
Sciences in Barcelona,
and his colleagues took a fresh look at the mathematics of constraints —
specifically, of “noisy” constraints.
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