You'd be better off with some stupid code that junior devs (or Grug brained senior devs) could easily understand for the 0.1% cases.

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smcin 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

(In that specific case, with that specific very skewed data distribution, yes. But not necessarily in the general case. So "they" would be better off with that solution, but not a generalized "you").

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username135 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Then how do they learn

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mannykannot 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

My guess is that they would be more likely to “fix” and “improve” Ken’s algorithm than understand it (Jon Bentley mentioned, in passing, a similar case where this was the outcome.)

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chii 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

They can learn finite automata from computer science text books.

	▲	username135 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		True, i suppose, but theres simply no substitute for contextual, on the job learning. imo