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Sure. But at the scale of e.g. Google, Amazon, etc. how often do you think they are performing these lower level computations? From my experience: very frequen
by sbpayne 10y ago
Sure. But at the scale of e.g. Google, Amazon, etc. how often do you think they are performing these lower level computations?
From my experience: very frequently.
So it's useful at these corporations for all engineers to have this understanding, I think.
- sidlls 10y agoI haven't worked at any of these companies so I wouldn't know how often they're performing these computations. My conjecture is broad, of course, and a statistical suggestion at that: it seems unobjectionable to claim that for some companies the "typical application" lives in the 20%-25% "outlier" region most of the time.
- jboggan 10y agoFrom my admittedly limited experience at Google, given the size of the input data even a "small" project deals with those little algorithmic inefficiencies really add up quickly. You have to do a lot of optimizing and using clever data structures to make something work at all.