hokusai

Context: I never did too well in statistics, and in general I was always pretty bad at understanding simple Math notation like sigma notation, multi-variate calc, or linear algebra. Here's the Hokusai paper: http://www.auai.org/uai2012/papers/231.pdf And here's an implementation: https://github.com/dgryski/hokusai For me to understand the paper, I had to go through the code to piece out the Math jargon, even though the Math behind it is really quite simple. Another way of saying this is, "I'm dumb," sure. Not gonna argue with anyone there. Though I still think it's curious why it's easier for me to understand a concept through code than it is through Math. It's sort of reminiscent of when you first learned Algebra, your teacher would tell you to replace the variable with an easy number and work through it to understand the mechanics of eq

In the world of lossy counting. This [1] could be something to look at if you wanted to answer the question "how many requests/secs towards jgc.org at noontime, two months ago" [1] https://github.com/dgryski/hokusai