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boothby
on Sept 14, 2025
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The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algo...
It's funny because the opposite is often true as well: if you're having trouble solving a problem quickly, randomize the data and try again.
kibwen
on Sept 14, 2025
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Sometimes these are even the same approach:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
lukaslalinsky
on Sept 17, 2025
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Well, even PDQ as one of those new sorting algorithms is a fancy randomized quick sort. I'd say these go well together.
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