This is commonly used in the immune system as well, but it's a way of amplifying a signal.

免疫系统也常使用这种方法,但这主要是一种放大信号的方式

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it's interesting. I don't use much of that as inspiration for my own work,

很有意思。我在自己的作品中不常使用类似的灵感，

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That one's not so obvious. So let's think about this for a second. To sort a list in linear time, would say, I have to look at each element in the list at most a constant number of times.

所以让我们来思考一会,要在线性时间能排序，列表里每个元素最多被使用常数次,不一定是一次，对吧。

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