Not in the style of the submitted article, but HyperLogLog was mentioned [0] last year on Nick's Blogs Damn Cool Algortihms series [1]. Discussion on HN [2]. [

Not in the style of the submitted article, but HyperLogLog was mentioned [0] last year on Nick's Blogs Damn Cool Algortihms series [1]. Discussion on HN [2]. [0] http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinality-Estimation http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinali... [1] http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488946