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- Your Bloom Filter Is a Renaissance AstrolabeA one-hash Bloom filter and a 1542 navigator's astrolabe use the same trick: read one thing against several grids that never line up. Coprime grids are the cheapest independence there is.
- The Search for CertaintyAn excellent book for those who really want to understand the foundations of mathematics—not just how mathematics works, but how we know that it works. Giaquinto digs into some of …