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Trevor_Blake comments on [SEQ RERUN] Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Trevor_Blake 26 July 2012 07:01:34PM 0 points [-]

Now the question of what makes a heap correct or incorrect, has taken on new urgency.

Questions of what makes a heap incorrect will reveal more useful answers than questions of what makes a heap correct. Questions of correct and incorrect are not of equal utility in minimizing error.