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Audio Edition: Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

Audio Edition: Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

Update: 2025-08-141
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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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Audio Edition: Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

Audio Edition: Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

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