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		teraflop 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop using the elbow criterion for k-means It's nothing new. See, for instance, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful", published by Dijkstra in 1968.

vacuity 6 months ago [–]

Though that name came from Wirth as editor. The original name ("A Case against the GO TO Statement") is somewhat less inflammatory.

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