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It’s confusing to me for the name of the product to bear a purely superficial resemblance to HyperLogLogs without any discernible relation. Is this a Java/Java
by stochastic_monk 9y ago
It’s confusing to me for the name of the product to bear a purely superficial resemblance to HyperLogLogs without any discernible relation.
Is this a Java/JavaScript Ham/Hamster joke?
- eibrahim 9y agoI have no idea what HyperLogLogs is - never heard of it probably because I try to stay as far away as I can get from anything remotely related to java :)
- plasticchris 9y agoIt is a very cool algorithm for estimating the cardinality of sets! Look it up!
- kornish 9y agoThe reference to Java/Javascript Ham/Hamster was to give examples of two things which share syllables, but are actually completely unlike each other. Ham doesn't come from a hamster and Javascript only borrowed Java's name, not its features.
- stochastic_monk 9y agoOh, okay! It’s just chance. It’s your lucky day! It’s a probabilistic data structure which estimates cardinality with O(log(log(cardinality)) space, hence the loglog. Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog plasticchris is right, it was because its name was similar, nothing more.