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Where are all the yellow blocks in the final product? Why is nobody asking this?

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There’s an inside…

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Where did the grass plates come from?

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The yellow blocks didn’t fit the desired story, so were disregarded as outliers.

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Presented visually > Story

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I hate when computer scientists use “sorting” for “ordering”. It’s been mistranslated into other languages, too.

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sort, verb: “to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups”

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Radix sort is truly a sorting algorithm though, it just results in an ordering.

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I am very new to the world of CS but I appreciate precise vocabulary. Is my understanding below correct?

  • Sorting = Assigning each object to one category (“bin”).

  • Ordering = Like sorting, but the categories themselves have an inherent hierarchy/order (numerical, alphabetical, etc.)

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Yes but people say “sorting algorithms” when describibg programs that put elements of a list in the correct order.

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this is so freaking good, I cannot tell you how often I am told I have all the data and I should be able to make xyz work

and I am just a recently hired systems administrator that has to deal with my bosses paper notes and the person I replaced lack of documentation

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The best part of this is the subtle implication that you can tell a million completely different stories with the same data.

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You just need to pick the pieces you want and discard/ignore the ones you don’t!

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And invent the special pieces you need to tell the story you want.

Where the fuck was that baseplate hiding?

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The baseplate came from the green in the bar graph. As we know all, the base plate is the foundation for any major project. Regardless that the bar graph shows little green compared to everything else. Green is far more important and we should focus all our efforts on the color green.

In a major coincidence, green is the color of money and I am now moving into a bigger house.

Edit: The fact that I got upvotes for a poorly written post amazes me.

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Having spent an unfortunate amount of time debunking bullshit statistics… yes.

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