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by khuey 34 days ago
The 99 in his TM99 is also an arbitrary number.

The more interesting part of the talk is how using what he calls "fenceposts" naturally results in bunching up against the fenceposts because even small regressions that cross the fenceposts are blocked but regressions of any size that don't cross a fencepost go unnoticed.