12 posts tagged with "Computer Science"

So, I recently got my hands on M. Mitchell Waldrop's Dream Machine, and let me tell you, it's one heck of a ride through computing history. This book doesn't just talk about the past—it dives deep into the collaborative efforts, ethical dilemmas, and the sheer brilliance that have shaped the digital world we live in today.

Today I learned about cuckoo filters, a data structure used in computer science for probabilistic set membership queries. Cuckoo filters are similar to Bloom filters but offer more flexibility by allowing for deletion of items from the filter while maintaining good space efficiency.