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Tinkering around for fun, a computer science undergrad realized that he had invented a new kind of hash table, one that worked faster than expected—taking less time and fewer steps to find specific elements.

wrd.cmUndergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash TableA young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

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dust-yourself-off.bsky.social
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It's interesting, isn't it. I took some computer programming classes in my younger days. They were hard for me, which challenged me, and that made them fun. Helped others when I could, which was also challenging because sometimes they wouldn't try what I told them until they were desperate 🙃

dust-yourself-off.bsky.social
@dust-yourself-off.bsky.social

People can be so funny. I'll never forget this one, girl. She told me the problem she was having so I searched through a book. I told her I think you just need to add this one line of code here. She's like that can't be it. I said ok good luck then. A couple of days later, she came back to me crying