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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The example I used in the spur of the moment was Peter Norvig's "numbers every programmer should know":
http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers
Things have moved on since that was written in the naughts, but the orders of magnitude have remained relatively stable. These are *facts on the ground*. Features about how the sand that does math actually operates. And if we're doing our job right as engineers (building things to make life better for others) those facts *must* shape our decisions.