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then and now?
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AUDIENCE: Yes.
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SPEAKER 1: OK.
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So that's J. What happens next?
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AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE].
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SPEAKER 1: OK.
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That's K. K, L, good.
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B, that's easy.
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On top.
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A, even easier.
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On top.
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AUDIENCE: Am I going to finish this entire thing?
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SPEAKER 1: Yes.
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We need 13 more, give or take.
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M and--
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AUDIENCE: N.
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SPEAKER 1: N, O. I didn't do a very good job there.
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U, V. OK, definitely not good.
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Y. That's good.
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It goes toward the end.
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R, a little harder.
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But this is actually a good situation for us
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to be in because-- you keep going, I'll keep talking.
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So even as Allison is sorting this, she's
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dealing with each of these blue books one at a time.
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But notice what's happening to her right hand.
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There literally is more and more work, it seems, happening in her right hand
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because as she encounters R or now W, not only does she need more thought,
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she also needs to do more flipping to actually find
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the right spot for W. This is H. She's doing the same thing again.
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So it feels like the algorithm has started to slow down.
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At first, it was pretty easy to just make a short list.
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But now that the list is getting longer, it
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feels like she's fixing a lot of work, or finding a location is
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getting harder and harder.
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Or at least taking longer and longer.
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Maybe the alphabet itself is not that much more difficult.
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Now, we have I. I can only stall so much longer.
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G.
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AUDIENCE: Sorry.
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SPEAKER 1: No, that's fine.
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E, good.
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OK.
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So it's getting a little easier because we're at the beginning.
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Sorted.
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So what were you thinking?
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What was that algorithm?
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AUDIENCE: It was just take a letter, take another letter,
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and then test to see if the letter is before or after.
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SPEAKER 1: OK, good.
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AUDIENCE: And then put it in the correct place on either side.
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SPEAKER 1: Perfect.
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So a perfect way of thinking about this as well.
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So thank you so much.
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AUDIENCE: Thank you.
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SPEAKER 1: Very nicely done.
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And suppose the problem's a little harder.
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I'll do this one myself here.
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But suppose we have some playing cards.
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And these are the type that probably everyone here can see.
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So here is a standard deck of cards, including
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the jokers, which we won't need.
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How do you go about sorting things like this?
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I don't know if-- actually, I didn't think in advance.
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I should have shuffled these.
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So if you want to shuffle these cards.
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This is not going to end well.
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OK.
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So suppose we have all of these cards nicely shuffled here.
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And I have before me a big problem, a big pile of cards.
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And the goal, for whatever reason, you wanted to start the game
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or you like to be orderly, is to sort the cards.
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What's your algorithm going to be for sorting these cards?
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What might you do?
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Yeah.
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AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE].
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SPEAKER 1: Do them in piles based on the number.
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OK, so here's the number 2.
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So you want to make a pile for all the 2's?
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OK, so we can do that.
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So here's a pile for all the 4's.
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And let me make myself some more room.
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So we can put 2's here.
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4's here.
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Here's a 3.
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So I'm going to put this in between the 2 and the 4.
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Here's a 5.
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I'm going to put that over here.
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And if I jump around, here's a Jack.
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So this is going to go way over there.
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7, 8.
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6 can go over here.
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Here's another 4, so I can put it here.
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And I can bucketize all of the cards.
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So this is good intuition because it makes a pretty big problem, 52 cards,
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a little more tenable.
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You can just now flip through all of the cards one at a time,
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or whatever you encounter first.
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And just drop it in the correct bucket.
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But that's, of course, not going to get you to the end.
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