• jeffhykin@lemm.ee
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    The best part of this is the subtle implication that you can tell a million completely different stories with the same data.

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    It’s missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the “story”.

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          The relationship between statistics and the base facts is the difference between it being a useful tool or the butt of a Mark Twain’s joke.

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        Yeah, like where the hell is all the red? Either there’s a secret chamber under the house, or there is a little bloodbath murder suicide happening in that house

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      I am very new to the world of CS but I appreciate precise vocabulary. Is my understanding below correct?

      • Sorting = Assigning each object to one category (“bin”).

      • Ordering = Like sorting, but the categories themselves have an inherent hierarchy/order (numerical, alphabetical, etc.)

    • LwL@lemmy.world
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      sort, verb: “to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups”

    • Wilzax@lemmy.world
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      Radix sort is truly a sorting algorithm though, it just results in an ordering.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    this is so freaking good, I cannot tell you how often I am told I have all the data and I should be able to make xyz work

    and I am just a recently hired systems administrator that has to deal with my bosses paper notes and the person I replaced lack of documentation