A music album contains both a CD and a video DVD.

Where do you sort it on your bookshelf?

Sort sizes by the amount of items with that size. After all, why not?

Thanks @iwannafly for the picture

3D Printed Hardware Sorter Keeps It Simple - If you’re like us, you’ve got at least one bin dedicated to keeping the random har... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/02/3d-printed-hardware-sorter-keeps-it-simple/ #mechanical #mischacks #elevator #hardware #sorting #sorter

Please. Sort your lists

If I sort by “Most Users” it doesn’t mean you don’t have to filtering anymore

The new `compareLex()` comparator in https://thi.ng/compare is another useful addition included in recent #ThingUmbrella updates (last week). It's intended for short tag-like strings containing compounds of words and numbers (e.g. "2d" or "base36"). It splits strings at the first digit/non-digit boundary and if both inputs (in terms of comparison) happen to contain such a boundary, compares each of these chunks lexicographically (using numeric ordering if both sides are numeric).

The attached short code example shows the difference to the (almost pointless, in this case) JS native sort logic...

(Ps. You can also see it in action in the sorted tag list of the previously linked thi.ng tag browser...)

(Pps. Updated code snippet, earlier copy/paste error...)

audiovisual representation of qsort vs merge sort!

courtesy of sort_everything176 on TikTok

I am excited my Glammr.us join date is 12. Aug., World #Elephant Day. Here is my #introduction.

I'm a former #museum worker living with a big elegant #painter and a tiny sugar sweet #architect.

Also a former #dinosaur and #bird lover as a primary schooler and a current waste #sorting enthusiast.

Recently realised my #tea taste leans uncontrollably towards #oolong tea.

My first #language is not English, but I will try to stick to using it for communicating with non-Korean speakers.

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New study, impressive result: "Here we show how #AI can go beyond the current state of the art [in #sorting efficiency] by discovering hitherto unknown routines…We formulated the task of finding a better sorting routine as a single-player game. We then trained a new deep reinforcement learning agent, AlphaDev, to play this game. AlphaDev discovered small sorting algorithms from scratch that outperformed previously known human benchmarks."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9

AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade - Enlarge (credit: Anas Photography)

Anyone who has taken a basi... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1946264 #computerscience #deepmind #science #sorting #google #code #ai