• 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    So… … a sorting algorithm that uses a wankton of energy and gets the sort order wrong sometimes. Um… why, though?

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      I still recall to this day, one of my university tutors talking about the C fastmath compiler directive: “I do not need a computer to arrive very, very quickly at the wrong answer; I can do that myself.”

      It’s good to see that with applications of modern comp-sci we have graduated to arriving very, very slowly and at great expense at the wrong answer.