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		actionfromafar on May 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Symbolica Computer Algebra System I love how merge-sort which was once used on punch cards because RAM was tight is still relevant. :)

lanstin on May 9, 2024 [–]

Knuth's section on sorting data on tape drives is surprisingly relevant to big data running over S3 buckets and streaming into compute.

ThomasBHickey on May 9, 2024 | [–]

I can remember the days! I suppose as problems grow in size, it's not too surprising that older methods of coping with what seemed like lots of data are still applicable.

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