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Re:Algorithmia Launches with More Than 800 Algorithms on Its... by csears on Thursday March 12, 2015 @01:25PM (#9192303)
In case anyone was wondering, quicksort is already available on the marketplace for the bargain price of 1 credit* per second:

https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/swm8023/quicksort

*100 credits is about $0.01

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Re:Algorithmia Launches with More Than 800 Algorithms on Its... by readerrr on Thursday March 12, 2015 @01:28PM (#9192319)
So is bogosort: https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/ikkebr/BogoSort

I think it is cheaper and faster to run any sort on a local machine than to send the data there and back.

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Re:Algorithmia Launches with More Than 800 Algorithms on Its... by platypii on Thursday March 12, 2015 @01:43PM (#9192435)
Agreed, but sorting is kind of the "hello world" of algorithms.
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Re:Algorithmia Launches with More Than 800 Algorithms on Its... by vijayr on Thursday March 12, 2015 @06:51PM (#9194517)
It literally seems to have a hello world algo

https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/demo/Hello

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