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A place to house books, articles, blogs, Medium content, LaTeX, the likes...

literature

A place to house books, articles, blogs, Medium content, LaTeX, the likes...

literature's Issues

Article: Search Trees, a "Road Sign" Navigation into Your Data

Where buckets fall short, typically when there are simply too many data items to fit into too few buckets, we resort to "road signing" our data.

Breadth-First Article Writing (and tutoring) by Jon

Teaching vs Publication

Teach first, publish later.

Teach In-house First

Jon will write for in-house learning, first and foremost. That means a lot of requisite foundational knowledge will not be covered in the first draft (will be a final draft if in-house team already understands the article/lesson).

Publish Later

Writing for publication requires a fuller coverage of requisite foundational knowledge; most people (Pareto ratio, normal distribution) cannot and will not self-study said foundational knowledge. We won't be publishing to teach, actually. Mostly, we'll be publishing to entertain.

Article Proposal: Math, Naturally

A series of articles called "Math, Naturally".

Explains math in natural language (human language, English first of course).

Math is actually (usually) conceived first in natural language, then packed into compact mathematical language. Even math laypersons will utterly enjoy this series.

Topics can include:

• Hash Maps (aka Hash Tables)
• Database Indexing via n-ary search trees
• O-notation and friends

, and so on.

This series of articles can also refresh your own math.

Article: Hash Tables, a Filing System made of Buckets

Topics:

• Reducing Search Space --- 'A' for "Aces", 'B' for "Bases"
• Better Bucket Labels, beyond 'A to Z'
• Collisions --- Sharing a Bucket
• Load Factor --- Sharing Buckets Evenly
• Collision Resolution
  • Separate Chaining --- Observing Bucket Labels
  • Open Addressing --- To Each Its Own Bucket
    (We may skip this altogether; it's an unintuitive way to use Hash Tables.)
• Hash Function Quality --- Did We Label The Buckets Well?

Formal terminology, eg key and bucket, will be introduced "as and when needed".

Article: Sending Secret Messages

Teaches any layman how to send secret messages with openssl (preferred implementation is LibreSSL).

Further, also explains in very clear and simple terms the reasons behind every openssl step in this article. People learn best if they know what they're learning (not memorizing).