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   by alexbowe 2y ago

   Interesting read, thanks for sharing! If you have some benchmark results, it'd be great to see how it compares to traditional data structures in practice, for different datasets and varying k-mer lengths
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   I Quit Reddit in 1 Day(nitinpassa.com)

   70 points by alexbowe 3y ago|87 comments
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   How I recovered a Bitcoin passphrase(alexbowe.com)

   4 points by alexbowe 5y ago|0 comments
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   Healthcare 101 for Aspiring Digital Health Startup Founders(anita-ssi.medium.com)

   1 points by alexbowe 6y ago|0 comments
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   by alexbowe 11y ago

   I'm an ex-Melbournite doing a PhD in bioinformatics algorithms (and succinct data structures) in Tokyo. I'm mainly interested in co-working spaces for cross-pollination of ideas, and friendly challenges. So, if anyone in Tokyo wan
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   The Best Way for Programmers to Interview Programmers(seshbot.com)

   1 points by alexbowe 12y ago|0 comments
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   Succinct de Bruijn Graphs (for DNA assembly)(alexbowe.com)

   1 points by alexbowe 13y ago|0 comments
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   by alexbowe 13y ago

   Although not part of the language proper, C++'s STL has vector<bool> that packs boolean flags into a bitvector (a now regrettable optimisation, since it doesn't function the way a container should - a story for another time). There
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   Will It Optimize? See how well you can anticipate gcc's optimizer (2010)(ridiculousfish.com)

   98 points by alexbowe 13y ago|32 comments
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    by alexbowe 13y ago

    I use them whenever I need to. Often I don't need to, since a compiler should be able to optimise the very basic things. Optimising prematurely is a good way to stuff something up (see question 5 here: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/
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    by alexbowe 14y ago

    It's cool :) and I just want to say that the readme is awesome. I love developers who communicate :P
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    by alexbowe 15y ago

    I'm interested in the paper too of course :D
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    by alexbowe 15y ago

    Thanks ot! :) I loved writing them and I hope it shows. Where is your blog at? Yes I was tempted to write a wiki page before...
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    by alexbowe 15y ago

    Thanks! I'll keep visiting ^^ looks interesting as it is
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    by alexbowe 15y ago

    Yes you should do a blog post :) What is your blog address?
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    by alexbowe 15y ago

    Glad you mentioned this. The author linked to my blog post, where I mention fast rank/select structures. There are faster ways to do it without a supporting structure too of course :) but I do like this post. I'm interested in what you use
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    My advice to CS undergrads (opinions?)(alexbowe.com)

    2 points by alexbowe 15y ago|0 comments
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    Python style decorators in Erlang(niki.code-karma.com)

    2 points by alexbowe 15y ago|0 comments
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    Hiding IO latency in Python generators by async prefetching(niki.code-karma.com)

    2 points by alexbowe 15y ago|0 comments
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    Common Lisp - Lazy Evaluation in Tic Tac Toe(fclaude.recoded.cl)

    57 points by alexbowe 15y ago|2 comments
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    by alexbowe 16y ago

    For background: I'm 23, starting my PhD. Have had about a year of industry work (including a game company - actual interesting work). I have a few startup ideas (trying hard to execute), and I'm interviewing with Google (although I failed l
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    by alexbowe 16y ago

    Thanks for reading the post, and Michael for posting it. I enjoyed all the comments. I only recognized Zed Shaw, Batman and a few others, so I've got some reading to do :)