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Mario Meets Pareto

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  1. a3w · · focus · HN ↗
    I did not understand <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49096439">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49096439, but I understood this.
    1. dxdm · · focus · HN ↗
      But Wikipedia tells you in the first paragraph what it&#x27;s all about.

      A &quot;Pareto front represents the set of solutions where no solution outperforms any other solution in the set at every objective, and every solution not in the set is outperformed by at least one solution in the Pareto front in every objective&quot;

      1. Maxatar · · focus · HN ↗
        Knowing a definition is not the same as understanding. I know this first hand from interviewing people who at the beginning of the interview can confidently tell me the definition of certain principles in statistics that I ask them about, and then later on in the very same interview when I present to them just a real world scenario, they are completely oblivious that the very concept they explained to me so articulately when we started the interview is the very same concept needed to solve the real world scenario being presented to them.
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