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I concur, the theory is not necessary to understand how to use it. Perhaps it is counter-intuitive and one would like hone their intuition. Still there are much better approaches t…

Tell that to Microsoft, ehm… Windows.

I like the idea, but this should be an api that can be accessed from any language.

it does not imply that no concrete methodologies would help us, but rather they will all fail at truly capturing the theory built by the programmer, as per the author.

This article explicitly states that it only applies to a subset of Vegetarianism, namely Ethical Consequentialist Vegetarianism. Ipso facto, it does not apply to the entirety of Ve…

It is, especially if they are avoiding violence out of moral responsibility...

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links to slides are all dead... in parent articles and reference articles

True. This is what I meant by confusing, without properly defining the variables at play, in this context, k is the index of the element of the ordered list, and not the kth smalle…

Context can be clarified by writing: "Quickselect is a selection algorithm to find the INDEX OF THE kth smallest element in an unordered list. It is closely related to the quicksor…

Input: arr = [7, 4, 6, 3, 9, 1] k = 2 Output: k’th smallest element in the array is 4 Am I missing something... shouldn't the k'th smallest element in this array be 3, given that k…

Cost of the machine is amortized over the number of e-mail sent, in other words OP is more interested in the average cost of sending an e-mail message, using statistical approximat…

By sick, you mean can it become bias to a subspace in the solution space, if so you would "cure" it by re-defining your fitness function to not get "stuck", or fooled by a local ma…

DES : - (Matsui, M. (1994, January). Linear cryptanalysis method for DES cipher. In Advances in Cryptology—EUROCRYPT’93 (pp. 386-397). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.) - Biham, E., & S…