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| From | Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe |
| Date | 2011-05-04 19:17 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <ips8nv$oec$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <dac673e7-fc1d-41fb-839e-97baa1bad360@s16g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <4dc1a2b9$0$41110$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> |
On 2011-05-04, Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 04-05-11 20:17, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>> Here's a 22-line beauty for a classic and amazing algorithm:
>> http://bit.ly/bloom_filter
>>
>> The wiki article on the algorithm is brief and well-written:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
>>
>> It turns out that people in the 1970's were pretty smart :-)
>>
>
> I think that often, the cleverness of people is inversely
> proportional to the amount of CPU power and RAM that they have in
> their computer.
True.
Unfortunately the difficulty in debugging and maintaining code is
often directly proportional to the cleverness exhibited by the
original programmer.
--
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Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 12:13 -0700
Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-04 21:35 +0200
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Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-04 15:42 -0400
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