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noir_lord
on Nov 13, 2020
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Optimizing Things in the USSR (2016)
If it takes a thousand years on a modern desktop.
Then amazon could theoretically do it in days (assuming it's amenable to parallelization) no?
why_only_15
on Nov 14, 2020
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My understanding is that it isn't. See the article this references many times (
https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...
), the paragraph starting with "So long as we are thinking like computer programmers".
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Then amazon could theoretically do it in days (assuming it's amenable to parallelization) no?