The DISTINCT in Your COUNT

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• muth02446 1 hour ago
  If you are satisfied with an approximation of "DISTINCT", there is a facinating probabilistic algorithm by Flajolet and Martin

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flajolet%E2%80%93Martin_algori...

  which fits on 10 lines and does not require sorting. Improved versions of it are LogLog and HyperLogLog.

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  • esafak 54 minutes ago
    APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT / APPROX_DISTINCT

    https://www.sketchingbigdata.org/
• natmaka 44 minutes ago
  In the same vein: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-count...
• thecaio 1 hour ago
  Hard to make a case to engange with an AI written article even if not fully slop
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  • nh23423fefe 11 minutes ago
    So don't engage and be silent. What value is "I'm obsessed with telling everyone i hate llms" for the billionth time?