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Picking tweets is an example of the problem, not the definition. Further, the article was very explicit about noting the small-size cases and ignoring then as i
by andrewflnr 7y ago
Picking tweets is an example of the problem, not the definition. Further, the article was very explicit about noting the small-size cases and ignoring then as irrelevant and boring. So no, they're not fair game.
- debatem1 7y agoLet's just read the first paragraph again: "Here’s a program roughly 0% of programmers know how to write: generate a list of random tweets, without duplication. You may think you know how to do this, but you almost assuredly don’t." This problem can definitely be changed into harder problems, but this is the premise of the article and it's pretty darn easy.
- ses1984 7y agoI think the premise is ambiguous and my initial reading caught the implication from "tweets" that the datasets are huge, therefore keeping track of state in the naive solution is impractical.