Audio Edition: Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
Aug 14, 2025•10 min•Season 1Ep. 18
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Episode description
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
The story How Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine.
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