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   by pnx 7y ago

   I find it odd that people think that equation is beautiful. Rewriting it in polish notation/lisp you end up with: (= (+ (exp (* i pi)) 1) 0) Which is neither beautiful nor very enlightening.
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   by pnx 7y ago

   >I'm saying that things that don't fly at small scale, don't become good ideas at large scale. They absolutely do. Fourier transform multiplication methods are a terrible idea if you run them on numbers that aren't hu
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   by pnx 7y ago

   Probably tens of thousands. And it will still be a faster operation than fetching the next json file from disk by an order of magnitude, or two.
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   by pnx 7y ago

   Bubble sort works amazingly well on the small scale. It shits itself on the large scale. Just like how trying to run an economy like you do a household results in the great depression.
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   by pnx 7y ago

   >Consider something as simple as parsing an integer in a text-based format; there may be whitespace to skip, an optional sign character, and then a loop to accumulate digits and convert them (itself a subtraction, multiply, and add), and
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   by pnx 7y ago

   And of course bubble sort is the perfect solution for distributed sorting.
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   by pnx 7y ago

   See that's the problem, a sorting algorithm just moves values around, whether it's 100 values or 10 Billion. At the end of the day if bubble sort is good enough for a micro controller it's good enough for a data center.