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December 2019

Hello, Can you kindly revert the picture back to the lava flows on the Kent Tate article? Thank you!LorriBrown (talk) 14:59, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

 Done, and you're the resident expert for Donna Read, a CA filmmaker. –84.46.52.84 (talk) 16:21, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

84.46.52.84 Thank you for doing that. I'm afraid your reply is a bit to cryptic for me. I don't know who Donna Read is.  : -) LorriBrown (talk) 17:04, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

No pressure, I was only annoyed when the WMF told folks following them on linkedin, that somebody created almost 700 WIR-BLPs in less than two years. IMO a bio-stub via AfC needs a week, under ideal conditions, PoC. –84.46.52.84 (talk) 17:29, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the edits on the KT article!  :) LorriBrown (talk) 23:24, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Partition sort

(Following up here because the teahouse discussion got archived before I noticed your reply.)

Worse, some of us recall "partition sort" from the 80s, put it together with TAOCP in a search engine, find ch. 2.3-3 in Wirth's "algorithms and data structures", and used to know that by heart before somebody invented gopher (like the www, only older.) –84.46.52.84 (talk) 20:02, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Yes, sometimes "partition sort" is used as a synonym for quicksort. §2.3 of Wirth's book is titled "Sorting Sequential Files" and doesn't include any form of the word "partition" at all. But §2.2.7 is titled "Partition Sort" and discusses quicksort. The name "partition sort" appears to be a general category (like the preceding "tree sort" section describes heapsort), so it vaguely appropriate for generalizations of quicksort. The main problem with using the name for my proposed article is is that I'm being too restrictive in applying it to a particular generalization.

Likewise, TAOCP Vol 3 mentions "partition exchange" as a category into which quicksort fits. (Although I did come across a mention of "interval-exchange sort" that looks interesting. van Emden, Maarten H. (September 1970). "Increasing the efficiency of quicksort". Communications of the ACM. 13 (9). doi:10.1145/362736.362753.) There's lots about integer [partitions and partitioning in the context of

Using search engines, I have managed to find:

• "Partition sort" as an alternate, less common, synonym for quicksort (easily handled with a hatnote like This article is about variants of the original quicksort, itself sometimes called "partition sort".), and
• another quicksort variant called "partition sort" ("Partition Sort and Its Empirical Analysis" (source) and Partition Sort Revisited: Reconfirming the Robustness in Average Case and much more!), but those are from 2011 and 2012 respectively, so not what you're referring to. But it is another, unrelated, quicksort variant, so it definitely contributes to my original name-choosing problem. (But it's a stupid algorithm, because it basically uses heapsort to find the median, and is therefore a very complicated way to achieve heapsort performance. Presumably that's why nobody else has studied it and it's therefore not WP:N.)

Are you referring to the synonym, or the generalization? The reason I asked in the Teahouse is that I really would like a more specific name, but I haven't been able to come up with one. 196.247.24.22 (talk) 20:55, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Wow, that's supposed to fail for most IP talk pages, I stumbled over it only because I'm looking for an older contribution on a 84.46.5[23].* talk page today. As long as you're aware of these notable older uses pick whatever you like or need, I only commented, because one new violated my idea of POLA. –84.46.53.107 (talk) 22:35, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

@84.46.53.107: huh? What is supposed to fail for most IP talk pages? What's the "it" you stumbled over? And what's this "one new"? Very confused here... 196.247.24.22 (talk) 02:04, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Hoping that they (dynamic IPs like me) look at talk pages for other IPs (instead of their current IP) is supposed to fail. Ping to IPs does not work at all. It is this talk page, I stumbled over it again today looking for a forgotten explanation of the 512 IPs used by my ISP (free mobyklick.de WiFi in Hamburg by WilhelmTel).
I'm not checking the teahouse archives who said "new" about your partition sort, because I only wanted to talk about "not new". –84.46.53.231 (talk) 10:11, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

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