Copy Link discreteevent 16 hours ago Next Collapse Comment - >Enumerative combinatorics is a branch of mathematics focused on counting the elements of a set.These people are experts on sets but then they use the word "every" instead of "some" or "a subset of".They just assume that everybody must be doing what they do. This is why Alan Kay said: “Point of View is worth 80 IQ points" Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link muragekibicho 3 days ago Prev Collapse Comment - Algorithms like HyperLoglog are an exercise in Enumerative Combinatorics Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link jpgvm 16 hours ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - To add to this HyperLogLog, sketches and bloom filters are the magic that make most of modern distributed databases tick. Reply View | 0 replies Copy Link dgan 15 hours ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - that's not a helpful response. Congrats on knowing that, but the rest of us are still in the dark about the usage Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link jpgvm 16 hours ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - To add to this HyperLogLog, sketches and bloom filters are the magic that make most of modern distributed databases tick. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link dgan 15 hours ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - that's not a helpful response. Congrats on knowing that, but the rest of us are still in the dark about the usage Reply View | 0 replies
>Enumerative combinatorics is a branch of mathematics focused on counting the elements of a set.
These people are experts on sets but then they use the word "every" instead of "some" or "a subset of".
They just assume that everybody must be doing what they do. This is why Alan Kay said: “Point of View is worth 80 IQ points"