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1. mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 00:40:47 JST mhoye

   I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 00:41:32 JST Aral Balkan

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     @mhoye Very cool; and a very simple algorithm to implement.

   • mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:40:30 JST mhoye

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral One of the consistently good, consistently inspiring things about this field is how often a significant advance or insight, something solves a real problem, also turns out to be something that a competent undergrad could implement for an assignment.

     Maybe industrialized computation is just a byproduct of ignorance.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:40:30 JST Aral Balkan

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     @mhoye Or greed, hype, and quarter-by-quarter thinking.