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Bloom Filters by Example

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243 points ibobev | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kridsdale3 ◴[29 Jun 25 17:18 UTC] No.44414701[source]▶
I wrote a Bloom Filter for college in CUDA in 2009. My advisor was a former Nvidia guy. I then went on to not do any GPU programming at all in my career.

I probably could have made $100,000,000 if I had made a different choice there.

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1. ricardo81 ◴[29 Jun 25 20:37 UTC] No.44416235[source]▶
Improbable considering it was a CS idea in 1970. Surely every idea for GPGPU was fair game.

I wrote a hashcash implementation on a GPU 10 years ago. Pretty sure it's valueless now.

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2. collingreen ◴[30 Jun 25 06:27 UTC] No.44420088[source]▶
I think their implication is not that they weote a $100M one off but instead that if they had stayed in GPU programming they could now be making the proverbial big bucks in the current ai boom