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Re:Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006) by booleandilemma on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:59PM (#14906988)
The current hotness is AI/machine learning/deep learning. Maybe after that it will be something like "quantum programming"?

Just my guess.

http://www.newsweek.com/2017/04/21/quantum-computing-ibm-580...

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Re:Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006) by flor1s on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:35PM (#14907186)
It seems like in that field you can use some of your knowledge of system programming. Overflow and underflow happens a lot with the big data volumes you face. Another systems programming topic discussed in most big data courses is floating point accuracy.

Understanding floating point arithmetic is even more important than over/underflow of integers in dynamic languages such as Python (see e.g. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/).

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Re:Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006) by serhei on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:36AM (#14910878)
The next boom will be in whatever _isn't_ being hyped right now.
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