Re:The expected value of the game is positive regardless of ...
by Majromax on Friday September 06, 2024 @11:01AM
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> Is the interview for an engineering position or for sales?
Either way. The coin-flip example and Ballmer's binary search game could apply with simple extensions to complicated processes like SLAs on cloud services.
> The data going to be sorted by merge sort is not going to have anything up its sleeve
That's a curious example, since one reason to use mergesort rather than quicksort is the latter's susceptibility to pessimal inputs.
Either way. The coin-flip example and Ballmer's binary search game could apply with simple extensions to complicated processes like SLAs on cloud services.
> The data going to be sorted by merge sort is not going to have anything up its sleeve
That's a curious example, since one reason to use mergesort rather than quicksort is the latter's susceptibility to pessimal inputs.