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Audio Edition: Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

The Quanta Podcast

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Revolutionizing Hash Tables: A Breakthrough in Data Structures

This chapter examines a university student's innovative hash table that enhances data retrieval performance. It explores the history of hash tables and discusses how this breakthrough challenges long-held conjectures in the field of data science.

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