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   by uncompetence 14y ago

   Small nit: Watson, not Deep Blue.
2. 2.▲
   by uncompetence 14y ago

   Except that's not how public safety works. Part of why this regulation exists is because having unregulated taxi drivers (at least to the judgement of lawmakers) poses a danger to everyone else on roads etc.
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   by uncompetence 14y ago

   "For example, infants don't have spacial awareness, or understand how objects can be relative to each other, until they learn the words for describing relativity." Where's the citation on this?
4. 4.▲
   by uncompetence 16y ago

   Why the hell is recursion considered cheating?
5. 5.▲
   by uncompetence 16y ago

   If you treated this as a variant on the backpack problem, you run into trouble as you can't properly memoize or use dynamic programming. You use 'timesteps' as the size of the 'knapsack' since the number of balls is unbounded. At each times
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   by uncompetence 16y ago

   If it is any consolation, I'm pretty sure Mr. Thompson is a 14 year old kid.