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    2. Shane Legg

    3. Jürgen Schmidhuber

    4. Matt Mahoney  :

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    6. David Vetter

    7. Seriation (archaeology)

    8. Ordination (statistics)

    9. Emperor Norton  :

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    10. Harlan Ellison

    11. Last Dangerous Visions  :

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    12. Operation Pluto  :

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    13. Mulberry harbours  :

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    14. Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm  :

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    15. Navy shower  :

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    16. Robin Sloan  :

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    17. Elizabeth Bear  :

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    18. Order of Assassins  :

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    19. Tengri  :

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    20. Golden Kamuy season 2  :

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    21. Lupin the 3rd Part I  :

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