During a talk called "Why Know Algorithms" at OSCON 2011, speaker Andrew Aksynoff showed a slide demonstrating selecting women from a database by a "hotness" criterion. For the rest of the talk, he used this as an example of database query optimisation.
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- Distracting examples ruin your presentation Andy Lester documents the incident, including photographs of some of the slides.
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