e-dard

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1. 61.▲
   by e-dard 16y ago

   Is it weird that I was very surprised that anybody writes anything important in anything other than LaTeX??
2. 62.▲
   by e-dard 16y ago

   Well clearly they're more likely to hire someone who does go to the effort! > To be clear, interpolation search can cut down the runtime by another log factor (`O(log log n)` instead of `O(log n)`) but it's just not worth the effort, es
3. 63.▲
   by e-dard 16y ago

   OK, you are simply proposing the most obvious solution to the problem, which is entirely correct - I must have misunderstood your reasoning. I assumed Reddit would want something a bit more special that the hundreds of Binary Search impleme
4. 64.▲
   by e-dard 16y ago

   You're ignoring real-world aspects of the problem. For example, you're assuming that the data points are evenly distributed across time. Reddit will most likely have regular busy and quiet periods, which will impact the density of the log a
5. 65.▲
   by e-dard 16y ago

   Your site design completely rocks. It's fantastic.