I assumed that it was well-known since I learnt about it in first-year computing (nearly 7 years ago now..). In retrospect, that was probably a silly assumption.
I think the joke is that you wrote “stimulated annealing” rather than “simulated annealing”.
Oh! I always that was a valid alternate spelling of the same word. My bad.
Almost unrelated words. From thefreedictionary.com: simulate stimulate.
I assumed that it was well-known since I learnt about it in first-year computing (nearly 7 years ago now..). In retrospect, that was probably a silly assumption.
I think the joke is that you wrote “stimulated annealing” rather than “simulated annealing”.
Oh! I always that was a valid alternate spelling of the same word. My bad.
Almost unrelated words. From thefreedictionary.com: simulate stimulate.