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@debasishg
debasishg / gist:8172796
Last active July 5, 2026 16:33
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
@aras-p
aras-p / preprocessor_fun.h
Last active June 7, 2026 14:44
Things to commit just before leaving your job
// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,
@codebrainz
codebrainz / c99.l
Created June 14, 2012 23:49
C99 Lex/Flex & YACC/Bison Grammars
D [0-9]
L [a-zA-Z_]
H [a-fA-F0-9]
E ([Ee][+-]?{D}+)
P ([Pp][+-]?{D}+)
FS (f|F|l|L)
IS ((u|U)|(u|U)?(l|L|ll|LL)|(l|L|ll|LL)(u|U))
%{
#include <stdio.h>