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codelikeawolf
896 days ago
Wow! That's bananas! Imagine being 20 minutes and 6 decimal places away from a million bucks.
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Irishsteve
895 days ago
I might be mis-remembering this part - but I believe napoleon dynamite had its own algorithm in the ensemable because it was a tricky one to predict the rating for.
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thaumasiotes
896 days ago
Being six decimal places away from winning means the winner was one million times better than you.
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bagels
896 days ago
They're talking about 0.999999 vs 0.999998, or ~1 part in 1 million different
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