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		mometsi on Feb 10, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tabl... I wonder if there's a significant nominative determinism effect-- One might expect some of the most prominent people in math and cs theory to have names like Aaronson and Baez...

chikere232 on Feb 10, 2025 [–]

It would be most fair to hash the names first, especially for this paper

usefulcat on Feb 10, 2025 | [–]

I suppose then the next question will be which author gets to choose the hash function..

yencabulator on Feb 11, 2025 | | [–]

They all pick one, results are XORred together.

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