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#algorithms
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- Tony Hoare: null, quicksort and CSP
- Ropes, skip lists and tries
- How search engines rank: PageRank to BM25
- CRDTs: how collaborative editing works
- Sum of three cubes
- How a regex takes down an API
- LSM trees: how write-heavy databases work
- Consistent hashing, visually
- How video compression works
- Bloom filters, visually
- The 200-terabyte proof
- Monte Carlo tree search, visually
- Babai's graph isomorphism result, for programmers
- B-trees, visually
- Raft: consensus you can actually understand
- How a "hot" ranking works
- Public key crypto, and what "NSA foils encryption" might mean
- How a hash table really works
- A case study in micro-optimization