Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 19:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4dc1a2b9$0$41110$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1304536639 25036 64.122.56.22 (4 May 2011 19:17:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 19:17:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:4648 On 2011-05-04, Irmen de Jong 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. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm also against at BODY-SURFING!! gmail.com