Month: October 2013

ibus jyutping

Posted on by phsamuel

As a cantonese from HK, I didn’t know how to “type from my mouth” as a kid. I learned Cangjie during high school but I have never become really proficient with it. Chinese is not exactly a phonetic language. But when I write IM, email, or just blog in Chinese. I found it much better…

Notes on Bloom Filter

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Here are some notes after listening to a coursera lecture of Algorithm 1 by Professor Roughgarden at Stanford. The goal of a Bloom filter is to provide a space efficient hash for some data entries. The insertion and validation of an entry are very efficient. But a trade-off is that deletion is not possible and…