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Not just easiest to implement -- literally "hard to beat".

Not "impossible to beat" mind you -- merely hard. Because the simplest strategies work so well in so many cases, that you need to go quite subtle and implement harder algorithms (doesn't matter if you just take them ready off of a lib for the argument) to see an improvement. 80-20, et al.



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