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Small programming tricks

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  1. monideas · · focus · HN ↗
    Almost all of these are irrelevant in the age of AI, except for the logarithm thing
    1. thatcherc · · focus · HN ↗
      Can you explain that one (the logarithm trick)? I have no idea what it's trying do to. Is it saying that it's convenient or useful to know the order of magnitude of a number rather than its value?
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