NASA hiring astronauts to live on the Moon
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The coin-flipping trick that counts the Internet
Here’s how the ubiquitous HyperLogLog algorithm works
- HyperLogLog algorithm estimates unique visitors without full list of IDs
- Visitors flip coins, hash function transforms flips into 0s and 1s
- Longest sequence of consecutive 0s approximates total unique visitors
Protecting the vulnerable Y chromosome at the beginning of development
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