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Crap. I wish i didn't read the HN comments page now. I read the first sentence of the article and immediately thought "you could bin on a log scale". To be cle
by CraigJPerry 12y ago
Crap. I wish i didn't read the HN comments page now. I read the first sentence of the article and immediately thought "you could bin on a log scale".
To be clear this isn't an area i'd consider myself all that knowledgeable. Coming up with a useful idea was an achievement.
So as i read through, comparing each proposed solution to mine, i decided i quite liked mine. Then i see that last proposal is my first idea. Great!
So over i wander to the HN comments and see that this is a common approach, i didn't just come up with a nice neat solution, i probably learned it, forgot it, and regurgitated it from my subconscious.
That sure doesn't feel as nice as the sparkly feeling i had just 3 minutes ago...
- sskates 12y agoThat's still impressive! It took you two seconds while it took us 3 code iterations to get it right. It seems so obvious in retrospect but in the moment it can be hard to use the full range of your intuition about math. That knowledge could probably have saved us a day or two of coding. OTOH it's extra difficult because when we did a first implementation we didn't we didn't have a full understanding of the shape of the problem.
- leeoniya 12y agowhenever i encounter "orders of magnitude" these days, my brain visualizes a log scale, lol.