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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by jefferickson on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @09:59PM (#18812466)
Not so much in the book itself, but definitely in the "Director's Cut" notes on the book web site. I cover bloom filters and the like in my more advanced algorithms courses.

Teaching that material correctly (without the traditional magical thinking) requires serious comfort with probability, which unfortunately isn't early enough in the CS curriculum at Illinois to be used in our data structures and algorithms courses.

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