How To Sort Cases of Beer

Well, those crates of beer aren't going to sort themselves, will they? That's why this group of Romanian warehouse workers sort cases of empty beer bottles for recycling LIKE A BOSS!

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You know, I have you to thank for checking out all sorts (pun intended) of sorting methods. Wikipedia has a nice list of sorting algorithm, but my favorite is the Bogosort:

It was developed by Salvatore Aranzulla. If bogosort were used to sort a deck of cards, it would consist of checking if the deck were in order, and if it were not, throwing the deck into the air, picking the cards up at random, and repeating the process until the deck is sorted. Its name comes from the word bogus.

It is not useful for sorting, but may be used for educational purposes, to contrast it with other more realistic algorithms; it has also been used as an example in logic programming.
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My favorite example of a single level bubble sort is organizing a deck of cards. One at a time, a card is compared with its neighbor until all are in order. A much faster method is to first separate the cards into suits and then order them. This is a two level bubble sort.

A college job was to organize purchase orders and invoices for a department that never organized anything. I first sorted by year, then month and finally by day. A three level bubble sort with alpha and beta decision tree cutting.
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I cannot understand all the hate for Enterprise. Far from being riddled with plot holes, it solved plot holes made by previous Star Trek series, such as the Klingon human-like bodies from TOS.

Nasty Vulcan characters? The series clearly depicted a social revolution on Vulcan that included a direct analogy of the gay rights movement in the 20th and 21st Century West. It was very clear that the social direction of Vulcan was moving toward what appeared in TOS. There's no inconsistency at all. The Enterprise writers told the backstory of Vulcan to viewers in the 2000s in a way that fit neatly into its predecessor made in the 1960s.

Yes, the last episode was a holodeck episode from TNG. A fan theory that the entire series was a holonovel is feasible. But dismissing the entire series as poorly-written . . . well, Trekkies are missing out on some great stories if they don't watch Enterprise, particularly in the final 2 seasons.
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I think this should be re-titled to I've got an unwarranted conspiracy theory. Enterprise had its poorly written stories - just as TOS and TNG - but overall it was great. John said it best above.

I've never seen a poorly written holodeck program, but there are more than a couple crappy holodeck stories. I've also never seen a holodeck program/story that didn't include one or more Enterprise crew members.
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