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@debasishg
debasishg / gist:8172796
Last active August 28, 2025 14:19
A collection of links for streaming algorithms and data structures

General Background and Overview

  1. Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
  2. Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
  3. Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
  4. Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
  5. [Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t
@adamawolf
adamawolf / Apple_mobile_device_types.txt
Last active September 1, 2025 12:17
List of Apple's mobile device codes types a.k.a. machine ids (e.g. `iPhone1,1`, `Watch1,1`, etc.) and their matching product names
i386 : iPhone Simulator
x86_64 : iPhone Simulator
arm64 : iPhone Simulator
iPhone1,1 : iPhone
iPhone1,2 : iPhone 3G
iPhone2,1 : iPhone 3GS
iPhone3,1 : iPhone 4
iPhone3,2 : iPhone 4 GSM Rev A
iPhone3,3 : iPhone 4 CDMA
iPhone4,1 : iPhone 4S
@mcasimir
mcasimir / static_map_helper.rb
Created May 24, 2012 01:32
Google Maps Static map helper for Ruby on Rails
module StaticMapHelper
def static_map_for(location, options = {})
params = {
:center => [location.lat, location.lng].join(","),
:zoom => 15,
:size => "300x300",
:markers => [location.lat, location.lng].join(","),
:sensor => true
}.merge(options)