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pbd ◴[] No.45146495[source]
From a systems design perspective, $3,000 per book makes this approach completely unscalable compared to web scraping. It's like choosing between a O(n) and O(n²) algorithm - legally compliant data acquisition has fundamentally different scaling characteristics than the 'move fast and break things' approach most labs took initially.
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1. thfuran ◴[] No.45150558[source]
Isn't a flat price per book quite plainly O(n)? If not, what's n?