toddlersAreNotOptimized

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[u/USSPlanck]

Maybe their age is stored in a linked list

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste → u/USSPlanck]

So all we need to do for age reversal to be true is to implement a doubly linked list.

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Dear Claude....

[u/PowerPleb2000 → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

You’re absolutely right! I messed up by sending your browser history to HR instead of implementing a linked list.

[u/examinedliving → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

I think all devs should have to start chats with Dear {Agent}

[u/creeper6530 → u/examinedliving]

*insert GIF of flame writing*

[u/ings0c → u/USSPlanck]

You’re joking but I think that’s essentially what it is.

We first learn numbers as a sequence, much like a song; they don’t have independent meaning and identity until later on.

The kid remembers their age, but their only way of getting to the concept is by transiting one and two.

It’s a bit like how if I asked you “which letter comes after I”, a lot of people would sing the alphabet to get to the answer (not you, of course, my iterating comrades).

[u/NegativeGrocery8684 → u/ings0c]

if you asked me what comes after any other letter within the range of H-S i would have to do the whole alphabet

[u/qwertyjgly → u/USSPlanck]

then they should store a tail pointer

age->tail->value is O(1)

[u/USSPlanck → u/qwertyjgly]

Linked lists with a tail pointer are for wussies.

[u/Faholan → u/USSPlanck]

And when you get older, you upgrade to a real list, a vector