Where's Walden? » bailout http://whereswalden.com Mozilla, politics, economics, law, backpacking, cycling, and other random desiderata Thu, 03 May 2012 09:13:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The twelve days of Christmas http://whereswalden.com/2008/12/27/the-twelve-days-of-christmas/ http://whereswalden.com/2008/12/27/the-twelve-days-of-christmas/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:45:18 +0000 Jeff http://whereswalden.com/?p=95 An amusing video via my favorite economist, even if it’s obviously not true to real life:

As a computer scientist my first thought is that it’s a very good thing there are only twelve days; imagine the cost if it were O(n2) rather than O(1)! (There’s a very large constant in this video’s case, of course, but as it’s not intended to accurately reflect reality there’s no reason to optimize. :-D )

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