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"It's an old mistake and not very costly in practice, but the intuitive rightness isn't worth the pain in the butt." Why is it intuitively right?
by david-given 11y ago
"It's an old mistake and not very costly in practice, but the intuitive rightness isn't worth the pain in the butt."
Why is it intuitively right?
- melloclello 11y ago"a string can be slack in many ways, but taut in only one" 0 is true, everything else is false. At least that's my intuition.
- emmelaich 11y agoHuh! Pretty similar to my comparison to Tolstoy's quote on happy and unhappy families. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10282933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10282933