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volkergrabsch
17y ago
Yes, I meant just space efficiency. It might be handy if you have many subsets (e.g. a solution space) you need to store in memory or on disk. I'm still looking for a faster algorithm that reaches the optimal space efficiency.
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volkergrabsch
17y ago
Thanks for the hint! I really forgot that one. I just added it to the presentation. In addition, I adjusted the example to "30 of 100" as this better reflects the average case. ("40 of 100" was too close to the pathological corner case "50
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volkergrabsch
17y ago
Thanks! In fact, I originally wanted to write a classic paper, but I realized that ... * The subject isn't complex enough to really fill a paper. * Whenever I want to talk to someone about this, presentation slides are very handy in contras
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volkergrabsch
17y ago
More exactly, it's the "beamer" package of LaTeX, not PowerPoint.
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Binom Bijection - Storing k-Subsets Efficiently
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17y ago
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volkergrabsch
17y ago
It wan't meant as a boycott. I just think that the author's recommendation for bloggers is ill-advised. It would be better to ignore AP rather than to pay extra attention to them.
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volkergrabsch
17y ago
"It's almost impossible to avoid AP content at the moment" I don't see any problem for a blogger to stop linking to AP. Not wanting to be linked to is a very stupid wish, so instead of trying to "educate" AP it's much simpler and more appro
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volkergrabsch
17y ago
The author concluded: "I think it would make sense for bloggers right now to start posting AP headlines and links along with a small amount of discussion on each, to keep it all within fair use, after all." However, why not simply avoid AP?
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Self-contained Literate Programming
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