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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

stack overflow

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You joke, but I've actually encountered many people this standoffish about their designs in my career.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yea this is quite common. People are still humans

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This is why I have tried to drill into junior devs that it is important to take a step back for several minutes before responding to criticism. It's just too easy to fall into the trap of interpreting comments and suggestions on improvement as a personal attack.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I got a problem with n^{logn}, wtf is that monstrosity??

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently that's quasi polynomial time, which grows faster than polynomial time but not quite as fast as exponential time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Probably, though the artist appeared to draw η (eta) rather than n which could mean they’re using learning rate to compute the bounds of some other value. I’m more curious what y-base log they’re taking and why.

It’s almost like it’s just supposed to look mathy or something.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

You got a problem for your algorithm, professor?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

A time complexity of N to the power of logN?

I can see why someone might have a problem with that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Ah, the theory group. My people.