On algorithms 📜 Is your complex O(n) algorithm faster than the trivial O(n 2 )? Theoretical complexity matters, but know your expected value of “n”. The linear algorithm may be slower than the quadrat
NEWS Making Magic In My Day Posted in Making Magic on August 17, 2009 By Mark Rosewater Archive Twitter Working in R&D since '95, Mark became Magic head designer in '03. His hobbies: spending time wi
Imagine a card game where there are hundreds of cards, with more being made all the time. Some cards are rare and some are common. You build a deck with whatever cards you want. You have no idea what’
Japan as a nation has long possessed a keen awareness of climate. Kigo , the phrases that evoke the feel of the seasons, are the foundation of haiku poetry. Shun , the term for seasonality, guides the
A few years ago, a mining company was considering reopening an old mine shaft in Welkom, a city in South Africa’s interior. Welkom was once the center of the world’s richest goldfields. There were clo
These are strange days for the American stock market, with the exuberance of investors defying the bleakest of outlooks. Yet, even in this warped moment, the outsized success last year of a tiny compa
A room without books is like a body without a soul, and the same is true of a city without an independent cinema. If New York has survived the rise of VHS and DVD and streaming—and this is no Luddite’
Sociological concept For the concept of third place in sports and other competitions, see Third place playoff . Not to be confused with Third Space Theory . This barber shop in Brazil is an example of
Premiere, Sept. 1996 Lost Highway article IN WHICH NOVELIST David Foster Wallace VISITS THE SET OF DAVID LYNCH'S NEWMOVIE AND FINDS THE DIRECTOR BOTH grandly admirable AND sort of nuts 1. WHAT MOVIE T
This week we are diverting from AI and machine learning to discuss a more intense CS topic — memory management in Python. Memory management refers to the techniques used by the programming language ru
Annals of Autocracy Opinion In Wuhan, doctors knew the truth. They were told to keep quiet. By the | August 22, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. EDT In the first weeks of 2020, a radiologist at Xinhua Hospital in Wu
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