Today's fun and educational Python recipe

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-05-04, Irmen de Jong <irmen at -NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 04-05-11 20:17, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>> Here's a 22-line beauty for a classic and amazing algorithm:
>> http://bit.ly/bloom_filter
>>
>> The wiki article on the algorithm is brief and well-written:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
>>
>> It turns out that people in the 1970's were pretty smart :-)
>>
>
> I think that often, the cleverness of people is inversely
> proportional to the amount of CPU power and RAM that they have in
> their computer.

True.

Unfortunately the difficulty in debugging and maintaining code is
often directly proportional to the cleverness exhibited by the
original programmer.

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