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A computer scientist volunteers at his public library—“a gigantic, life-sized, walk-in data structure, tuned for fast lookup”—and writes up an essay “about searching and sorting, two fundamental aspects of data processing, and what the library has to teach us about them.” (Came to my attention via twitter: Charming and moving computer scientist’s tribute to the public library, by @jorendorff: jorendorff.github.com/hackday/2012/l… — David Herman (@littlecalculist) August 13, 2012 Also note that if you scroll down to the bottom of the post, Jorendorff includes a link to some slides to go along with this.)

A computer scientist volunteers at his public library—“a gigantic, life-sized, walk-in data structure, tuned for fast lookup”—and writes up an essay “about searching and sorting, two fundamental aspects of data processing, and what the library has to teach us about them.”

(Came to my attention via twitter:

Also note that if you scroll down to the bottom of the post, Jorendorff includes a link to some slides to go along with this.)

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