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my gf doesn’t listen to the pod often but she recently went on a long flight and listened to a few episodes. At some point slime says to nick “are you out of your fatass mind” and my girlfriend thought this was so funny she cackled on the plane nonstop for 5 mins. and now whenever i ask if she wants to get food somewhere she asks if im out of my fatass mind and then we don’t eat. when will slime pay for what he’s done.

while doing competitive coding problems i frequently come across solutions that use union find (DSU) and list the big O of their solution as O(\alpha(n)) where \alpha(n) is the inverse ackermann function. after some surface level research, i have come away with many more questions than answers. So why is the DSU related to the ackermann function, and is there an intuitive or natural connection between the two ?