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digitalmars.D - Vitter's algorithm for random sampling

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-best-algorithm-no-one-knows-about/

Interesting. I think it has a place in std.random, and also it might 
help improve some of the existing stuff in there.
Sep 13 2019
next sibling parent Jon Degenhardt <jond noreply.com> writes:
On Friday, 13 September 2019 at 21:49:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-best-algorithm-no-one-knows-about/

 Interesting. I think it has a place in std.random, and also it 
 might help improve some of the existing stuff in there.
tsv-sample in eBay's tsv utilities contains a number of sampling implementations, including several classic algorithms. They use std.random facilities wherever possible. It does not contain an implementation of Vitter's algorithm D, because algorithm D requires knowing the record set size ahead of time. However one of the algorithms, bernoulli skip sampling, does use the "skip" mechanism listed in section 2, para 2 of Vitter's paper. The code documentation contains references for the different algorithms used. Like all the tsv-utils stuff, they are fast. No published benchmarks though. Links: * User documentation: https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils/blob/master/docs/ToolReference.md#tsv-sample-reference * Source code: https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils/blob/master/tsv-sample/src/tsv_utils/tsv-sample.d * Code documentation (via Adam's doc generator): https://tsv-utils.dpldocs.info/tsv_utils.tsv_sample.html --Jon
Sep 13 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Alex <sascha.orlov gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 13 September 2019 at 21:49:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-best-algorithm-no-one-knows-about/

 Interesting. I think it has a place in std.random, and also it 
 might help improve some of the existing stuff in there.
As far as I know, there is one in mir.
Sep 13 2019
parent 9il <ilyayaroshenko gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 14 September 2019 at 06:20:30 UTC, Alex wrote:
 On Friday, 13 September 2019 at 21:49:45 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:
 https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-best-algorithm-no-one-knows-about/

 Interesting. I think it has a place in std.random, and also it 
 might help improve some of the existing stuff in there.
As far as I know, there is one in mir.
more fresh link http://docs.random.dlang.io/latest/mir_random_algorithm.html
Sep 23 2019
prev sibling parent reply Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On Friday, 13 September 2019 at 21:49:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-best-algorithm-no-one-knows-about/

 Interesting. I think it has a place in std.random, and also it 
 might help improve some of the existing stuff in there.
Er .... isn't that exactly what IS in std.random? I ask because I was the one who implemented Vitter's algorithm there, way back in 2012 :-)
Sep 14 2019
parent reply Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On Saturday, 14 September 2019 at 10:26:42 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
 On Friday, 13 September 2019 at 21:49:45 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:
 https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-best-algorithm-no-one-knows-about/

 Interesting. I think it has a place in std.random, and also it 
 might help improve some of the existing stuff in there.
Er .... isn't that exactly what IS in std.random? I ask because I was the one who implemented Vitter's algorithm there, way back in 2012 :-)
I mean, I'm not saying that I feel unappreciated or anything, but I even blogged about it at the time ;-) http://braingam.es/2012/07/sampling-d/
Sep 16 2019
parent reply Jonathan Marler <johnnymarler gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 16 September 2019 at 22:50:56 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
 On Saturday, 14 September 2019 at 10:26:42 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
 Wakeling wrote:
 On Friday, 13 September 2019 at 21:49:45 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:
 https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-best-algorithm-no-one-knows-about/

 Interesting. I think it has a place in std.random, and also 
 it might help improve some of the existing stuff in there.
Er .... isn't that exactly what IS in std.random? I ask because I was the one who implemented Vitter's algorithm there, way back in 2012 :-)
I mean, I'm not saying that I feel unappreciated or anything, but I even blogged about it at the time ;-) http://braingam.es/2012/07/sampling-d/
It says Andrei even merged them...lol :) It was 7 years ago though. Sometimes I can't even remember what I had for dinner yesterday.
Sep 16 2019
parent reply Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On Monday, 16 September 2019 at 22:56:15 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
 It says Andrei even merged them...lol :)
He did. We even had some pre-submission discussions around it :-P https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1737.1334433366.4860.digitalmars-d puremagic.com
Sep 16 2019
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 9/16/19 5:05 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
 On Monday, 16 September 2019 at 22:56:15 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
 It says Andrei even merged them...lol :)
He did.  We even had some pre-submission discussions around it :-P https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1737.1334433366.4860.digital ars-d puremagic.com
Ouch. Apologies and thanks again for the great work!
Sep 16 2019
parent Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On Tuesday, 17 September 2019 at 00:28:32 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
 On 9/16/19 5:05 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
 On Monday, 16 September 2019 at 22:56:15 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
 wrote:
 It says Andrei even merged them...lol :)
He did.  We even had some pre-submission discussions around it :-P https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1737.1334433366.4860.digitalmars-d puremagic.com
Ouch. Apologies and thanks again for the great work!
Oh, no apology needed. I'm not offended at all, just very amused :-) I _am_ proud of that piece of work, though. It was my first contribution to D, and of all the pieces code I've ever written it's one of the few that I think still unambiguously feels like it provided lasting value. And I think your engagement with me, and help in clarifying the right things to do (together with others here on this forum) was very important both in terms of what I learned from it and also in helping me believe that I was genuinely capable of making worthwhile contributions to high-quality software projects. So thanks for that. In retrospect it really feels like an important turning-point for me career-wise :-)
Sep 17 2019