Lecture13b: Data Structures and Algorithms - Richard Buckland

Second half of lecture 13 of comp1927 Data Structures and Algorithms.

[BucklandRichard]

This is only the second half of the lecture, the mixer crashed halfway thru the lecture corrupting the first half.

this lecture is where we start explicitly looking at skepticism, which is a key theme of the course so I'm going to try to reconstruct the first half of the lecture from the raw camera tapes. this might take some time tho...

cheers
richard

[yoshimario]

Honestly I'm skeptical of being skeptic. Skeptics are the same guys who tell us life has no meaning and that everything is a lie. But then again, by being skeptical of skeptics, I'm being a skeptic myself. Is this confusing anyone?
(Actually it's not that confusing. Being skeptical != Being a skeptic. You can think of skepticism as a tool to think of all the possible ways you could be wrong and then prove the complete opposite. This is what Descartes did when he concluded 'I think->I am')

[HolySlw]

I don't know if it's considered and implementation error but if you are comparing, say, structures based on NON unique keys it returns a random occurence when i might want the first (or last) occurrence.

and... hmmm... when i know my code is wrong but i can't figure out why and where i feel it's better then others code anyway :\
(and usually I end up rewriting everything...)

[ramblinevilmushroom]

will we miss any important information because of that? :(