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Just because such a thing is beyond your experience doesn’t mean it’s rare or unimportant. I see this attitude in students who have worked mostly on toy (assigned) problems, but at…

> Is it worth making the algorithm slower just to have it work on extreme edge cases? Yes! If an API has no documented (and preferably enforced) limits on its arguments, the caller…

There’s a photo of him in the hall outside my office (@ NCSU), with his Emmy award. It’s nice to read stories here from people who knew him. He left big shoes to fill.

BestGuess obtains CPU time measurements with little overhead, analyzes the distribution of run times, and ranks them with nonparametric stats. The tool shows you when your results …

The comment about statistics that I wanted to reply to has disappeared. That commenter said: > I stand firm in my belief that unless you can prove how CLT applies to your input dis…