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Related advice "Don't go food shopping when you're hungry"
So would the best option be to pre-commit to your next meal immediately after finishing the current one?
Perhaps it’s the other way around? The study only suggests that the time of day affects the decision, not that worse decisions are made when hungry.
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The Weighted Majority Algorithm
Sometimes the environment really is adversarial, though.
Regular expressions as implemented in many programming languages work fine for almost all inputs, but with terrible upper bounds. This is why libraries like re2 are needed if you want to let anyone on the Internet use regular expressions in your search engine.
Another example that comes to mind is that quicksort runs in n·log n expected time if randomly sorted beforehand.
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Everyone who applies to Google is not ultra-smart. Far from it.
As a first-line interviewer, most people get rejected for being blatantly, horrifically incapable.
The perception that they are, unfortunately, causes many people who'd have a chance at acceptance to not even try. Anyone reading this, if you've thought about applying to Google and decided you don't have a chance, please think again! The opportunity costs are really low, and potentially negative; worst case you'll get a bit of interviewing experience.
No, everyone who applies to Google is not ulta-smart but most who are hired are probably pretty smart.
Given that everyone who are hired are smart, gwerns point is valid.