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I find it odd that people think that equation is beautiful. Rewriting it in polish notation/lisp you end up with: (= (+ (exp (* i pi)) 1) 0) Which is neither beautiful nor very enl…

>I'm saying that things that don't fly at small scale, don't become good ideas at large scale. They absolutely do. Fourier transform multiplication methods are a terrible idea if y…

Probably tens of thousands. And it will still be a faster operation than fetching the next json file from disk by an order of magnitude, or two.

Bubble sort works amazingly well on the small scale. It shits itself on the large scale. Just like how trying to run an economy like you do a household results in the great depress…

>Consider something as simple as parsing an integer in a text-based format; there may be whitespace to skip, an optional sign character, and then a loop to accumulate digits and co…

And of course bubble sort is the perfect solution for distributed sorting.

See that's the problem, a sorting algorithm just moves values around, whether it's 100 values or 10 Billion. At the end of the day if bubble sort is good enough for a micro control…