And what we want to do then, is we want to basically come up with, how do we characterize the growth-- God bless you-- of this problem in terms of this Quadra-- sorry, terms of this exponential growth.

现在我们想要做的就是,我们怎么来量化增长率呢？,在这个问题中也,就是框架-对不起是，输入指数的增长。

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And more generally, the problem is you can talk about what other people do in terms of reinforcement and punishment and operant conditioning and classical conditioning.

更加一般性的问题便是,你可以用强化和惩罚，操作性条件作用,以及经典条件作用之类的术语,来解释他人的行为。

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That's the question we're going to try and address. If we can do this, this is good, because first of all, it removes any questions about what machine I'm running on, it's talking about fundamentally, how hard is this problem, and the second thing is, it is going to do it specifically in terms of the input. Which is one of the things that I was worried about.

这是一个我们接下来要去,尝试和解决的问题，如果我们能做到的话会很不错，因为首先，它解决了结果可能和我,运行的计算机有关系的问题，因为这从根本了告诉了，我们这个问题的复杂度，第二件事情,就是这种方法可以依据输入的大小来计算,而这正是我最担心的地方。

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