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by rob-p 2mo ago
The giant yellow warning, unfortunately, says nothing about "complexity safety". As I note, even though I think the first failure (failure to help port an open source C++ codebase to Rust, simply because the tool itself deals with
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by rob-p 2mo ago
The abstract problem absolutely has legitimate interpretations outside of phylogenetics, and there are other ways to formulate the problem that directly relate to linear algebra over GF(2). Reformulating the problem in those contexts also
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by rob-p 2mo ago
But none of which suggest that it is not useful for math or theoretical CS tasks. The biology classifier is so miscalibrated so as to render the model useless for biology; and yes, they hint at that on the label (but not the extent of it).
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by rob-p 11mo ago
Your statement conveys a lack of knowledge of the main purpose of minimal perfect hash functions, as compared to generic/general hash tables (which are a more general, but therefore, in some cases, less efficient data structure). The
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by rob-p 11mo ago
Uhh, there is nothing at all "academic" about pthash, (or phast, or ptrhash), apart from the fact that they also described their ideas in papers. All of those tools work on massive sets of data, support massively parallel construc
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by rob-p 10y ago
I think that one of the problems I have with the description in the post is that it draws a line where, in reality, no real line (or at the very least, only a blurry mess) exists. For example, where do hierarchical models and Bayesian nonp