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by andsens 1371 days ago
Made me think of the good ‘ole Pessimal Algorithms paper: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11... Always a hoot to read ^^

> However, suppose the maze is actually quite agreeable, so much so that we wouldn’t mind spending a few extra cycles in the search for v; in fact we vaguely hope, nay, decidedly wish, that the search will take as long as possible,