Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe

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From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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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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Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 11:17 -0700
  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-04 21:02 +0200
    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
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-04 19:17 +0000
      Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-05 09:33 +1000
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 12:22 +1000
  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-04 12:27 -0700
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 14:53 -0700
  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-04 15:42 -0400
    Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 14:39 -0700
      Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-04 20:26 -0400
        Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-04 18:15 -0700
  Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe nn <pruebauno@latinmail.com> - 2011-05-05 07:33 -0700

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