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Mia Tavares

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Mia is a student at the Nueva School

Micah Brown

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Micah Brown is a student at The Nueva School, also the host of Project80, among other things.

Milton Freedman

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Milton Freedman is an economist.

Mini-Mental State Examination

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MMSE is not mean squared error! It is a short mental state test to measure one’s neuralpsycological capabilities; frequently used as a first line by a psycologist.

minimum edit distance

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minimum edit distance” is one approach to solving the problem of “how similar are these two strings”? minimum edit distance is defined by the smallest number of editing operations (insertion, deletion, substitution) needed to transform one string into another.

There are two technical definitions. Both definitions are grounded upon “minimum number of operations it takes to transform a string into another, where”

edit distance with DP

DP costs \(O(nm)\), backtrace costs \(O(n+m)\).