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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I seem to remember he wrote something in Python that took hours to run, and his community got it down to milliseconds in C.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What took Matt's code over an entire month to run, viewers optimized so damn hard that the majority of the runtime of the code is just loading the words, so they started optimizing the code to run while the word list was loading. Takes like 4 milliseconds to load the word list, and 2 milliseconds to run the program

People joke about the Parker Square, but he's unironically the most inspiring public figure imo. The king of Doing The Damn Thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I remember the time he Excel'd himself.