A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept
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"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept" 01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140 Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept. [Laughter] So at a mathematical level this is an obvious truism. You know if you have two lines, the red line and the blue line and the red line has a lower Y-intercept but a greater slope then eventually the red line will cross the blue line. And if the Y-axis is something good, depending on your definition of something good, then I think most people…
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