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If you don't mind me asking, what do you do once you've invented new data structure? I think I have recently, too, but (besides thoroughly documenting it and po
by silentbicycle 17y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do once you've invented new data structure? I think I have recently, too, but (besides thoroughly documenting it and posting a library based on it, soon), I'm kind of at a loss. I'm not in academia, so publishing in an academic journal isn't the clear choice. I've been trying to find prior art, but thus far haven't found anything similar.
My e-mail address is in my profile.
- kirubakaran 17y agoI hope you share the details of 'what to do after you ...' here.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoTo be blunt, I'm not sure. I've spoken with the head of computing at my nearest university and he seems quite excited by it. We may publish a joint paper - not least it will give him an Erdos Number of 3. Failing publication, I'll just write it up, put it on my web site, and announce it in a few place. What ever happens, I will announce it here for sure.
- silentbicycle 17y agoOk, thanks, and good luck with yours.
- phaedrus 17y agoHaha funny I think I've invented a new fundemental data structure as well. Hopefully we haven't all three invented the same one! Mine is going into proprietary software; I don't know if I'll write a paper over it. It doesn't allow you to do anything you couldn't do before, but it takes the best and worst case performance of a well known data structure and reverses the two. So it's useful in places where the other structure would perform poorly. Good luck with yours, both of you.