The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

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Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...

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A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development, my ...