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Archive for June 26th, 2025

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture : programming – Andrew Krapivin et all invente a faster hashing algorithm

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26

From a while back: [Wayback/Archive] Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture : programming which has a “TL;DR for non CS people” and a “Here’s an explanation” well worth reading.

It’s about the work of Andrew Krapivin with co-authors Martín Farach-Colton and William Kuszmaul.

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

Reminder to self to find any real world implementations of this new hashing algorithm.

Materials are the “easier” article [Wayback/Archive] Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture | Quanta Magazine which refers to the actual paper:

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Colorline Hirtshals departure/arrival times (boarding 1 hour before departure) to/from Kristiansand and Larvik

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26

Somehow initially hard to find, so lets document this (these dates were obtained on 20250625, but changing the dates does not seem so change the times):

Notes:

  1. Embarcation is 60 minutes before departure. Be on time!
  2. Book through their Norwegian site: it gets you more discount.

--jeroen

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Tom Waes tussen twee vuren in Noord-Ierland

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26

If anyone knows how to watch this outside Belgium, please let me know: [Wayback/Archive] Tom Waes tussen twee vuren in Noord-Ierland.

I was there a few years before and a few months after this got broadcasted and I am curious to the footage: how does it compare (or differe) with my own experience and why.

For now, it looks like you cannot view it outside Belgium without confirming you are a Belgian citizen: [Wayback/Archive] Reizen Waes – 5 (4) Noord-Ierland | VRT MAX

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Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust: automagically amend them with archived versions

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26

Need to look into this further: [Wayback/Archive] Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust.

Likely running it on my blog requires JavaScript to be enabled which means going from the premium to the small business plan (at te time of writing from USD 8 to USD 25 per month: a 200+% increase).

Let’s first start with an example:

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