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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by nickhodge on Monday February 10, 2025 @05:39PM (#43006208)
I bet this guy would still fail a first round FAANG developer interview requiring a Hash Table solution to move on in the process.

"Yeah, sorry. You didn't use the right Hash Table"

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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by rswail on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:35AM (#43010036)
Which is exactly the difference between "programming" and "computer science".
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by justanotherjoe on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:44AM (#43010828)
Oh, come on. Anyone can use a hash table. What this man did is not even comparable to that.
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