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		anonymouse008 on July 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: B-tree Path Hints I'm not qualified to truly understand this, but when Lex first interviewed Jim Keller, Jim basically said regarding processor design -- 'yeah, if you just guess the same result as last time, you get a 50% speed increase.' First Interview (where that poorly paraphrased quote resides): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=13s Second Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hL5Om4IJ4

sitkack on July 30, 2021 [–]

The Weather Prediction Algorithm, weather will be the same as yesterday. Only wrong on transitions, very useful when you have runs of the same state. After that you implement a Markov Chain [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

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