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I'm surprised no one mentioned PageRank (or maybe I missed it). Another favorite is RAFT, simply because of how elegant and simple it is and how easy it is to
by dvirsky 8y ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned PageRank (or maybe I missed it).
Another favorite is RAFT, simply because of how elegant and simple it is and how easy it is to understand.
Also - I used to work in a company that did P2P video streaming (pre WebRTC) and the way the protocol leveraged Reed Solomon Coding was just awesome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...
- spmurrayzzz 8y agoSeconding this. Its super easy to understand and explain to others (albeit implementation I have found to be somewhat more challenging when you dig into the details)
- dvirsky 8y agoYeah, once you start considering log rewrites I remember it got a bit more challenging. But the main idea is super elegant and beautiful.
- jansan 8y agoProbably the most commercially successful algorithm ever invented.