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		SekstiNi on Dec 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code q... That would indeed be linear time, but he doesn't make that suggestion as far as I can see.

gfd on Dec 17, 2022 [–]

It's in the red inked code review image and it's in his rewrite as "source = source[:-2]"

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