qurlyjoe<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/hashTable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hashTable</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a><br>I have no understanding of what a hash table is but I’ve heard of them and know that they’re important and useful. I like the utter randomness of this story. A student looked at an old paper “for fun” and blew the longstanding Yao’s conjecture out of the water. I also like that nobody knows what it might be good for right now but it might lead to something cool later on. Go <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>!<br><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/undergradua</span><span class="invisible">te-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/</span></a></p>
