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If you're curious what a Shlemiel the Painter algorithm is, I learned the term from this Joel Spolsky post lo these two score and three years past. Basically it means any algorithm that clearly should be O(n) but in practice is inexplicably O(N^2).
www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/b...
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Peter Clines
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I've learned something today. Thank you.
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Django Wexler
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gah one score
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Django Wexler
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That post, incidentally, gets at some of the reasons why the idea of AI coding in any serious capacity gives me hives. It's fine for like one-off scripting or toys, if it makes mistakes then you just debug it. But for a real application that needs to be performant its a nightmare ->
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