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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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Two level bubble sort: Two people move the cases in four directions while the rest of the workers stack them on the correct pallets. Very efficient. Perhaps even the most efficient way to physically sort anything.
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I had electro stimulation therapy for months following a pair of accidents. While the enforced cramping at maximum can be painful, it is entirely tolerable. Labor must be many times worse.
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Professional bread making is done by weight, not size. Indeed, it is traditionally sold that way as well. Not a good lawsuit. On the other hand, there is a large chain that has a corporate policy to short beer pints by 2 oz. Any class action lawyers want in on the suit?
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No, you cannot! This touches a nerve not because it is a sandwich but because it is an iconic company willing to cheapen its flagship product.
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There is a local restaurant that makes a burger that is supposed to be half bacon and half beef. In reality, it is half pork, not bacon. Sort of tastes like a meatball and is not that good.
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I have a friend who was attacked by a policeman in his own garage. Dropped the jerk with one punch. In the end, he was told that if he wanted to ever live unmolested in California, he needed to plead guilty to assault. even so, there was an unsubstantiated drug charge on his permanent record that cost him five figures to remove.

I recommend traveling well out of the way when a policeman is doing wrong.
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Using popular fiction as a way to explain and explore core scientific concepts. Brilliant!

Of course, when I was younger, I would have preferred to physically travel the universe searching for attractive and willing aliens for attempted breeding. Now that I am settled, I applaud such mental explorations.
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