Two insights about the rate of convergence s First,the individual energies decrease nontrivially.The BAM system does not creep arbitrary slowly down the Lyapunov or "energy surface toward the nearest local minimum.The system takes definite hops into the basin of attraction of the fixed point. Second,a synchronous BAM tends to converge faster than an asynchronous BAM.In another word, asynchronous updating should take more iterations to converge. 1212 Two insights about the rate of convergence First,the individual energies decrease nontrivially. The BAM system does not creep arbitrary slowly down the Lyapunov or “energy” surface toward the nearest local minimum. The system takes definite hops into the basin of attraction of the fixed point. Second,a synchronous BAM tends to converge faster than an asynchronous BAM. In another word, asynchronous updating should take more iterations to converge