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abuse-classifier
abuse and spam classifier
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System
Techniques · 11
Primitives · 44
abuse-classifier
Windowed stream aggregation
distributed · medium: Group events by event-time window per key, keep one partial aggregate per slice, and emit a window when the watermark passes its end.
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Active learning
machine-learning · medium: Choosing which unlabeled examples to label next: uncertainty, margin, diversity and committee sampling
Gradient-boosted decision trees (GB…
machine-learning · medium: Add small regression trees one at a time, each fitted to the loss gradient; histogram splits over 256 bins make it the strongest tabular default.
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Near-duplicate detection with MinHa…
machine-learning · medium: Estimate set Jaccard similarity from k min-hashes and find similar pairs with banded LSH buckets; the standard dedup for web crawls, training corpora and sequence collections.
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Text classification
machine-learning · medium: Assign one or more labels to a text; climb a ladder from regexes to linear models on n-grams, embeddings, fine-tuned encoders and LLM prompts, only as far as the data and budget demand.
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Dynamic batching
ml-training · medium: Queue independent requests and dispatch them as one batch when it is full or the oldest has waited max_delay; bounded extra latency buys throughput.
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Knowledge distillation
ml-training · medium: Train a small student to match a large teacher's softened outputs (plus the hard labels) so it keeps most of the teacher's accuracy at a fraction of the cost.
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Calibration
machine-learning · low: Make predicted probabilities match observed frequencies: measure with ECE, fix post hoc with temperature, Platt or isotonic scaling on held-out data.
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Embeddings
machine-learning · low: A learned table mapping discrete ids to dense vectors: gather forward, sparse scatter-add backward, row-wise optimizers to keep huge tables cheap.
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Byte-pair encoding (BPE) tokenizati…
machine-learning · low: Learn a subword vocabulary by repeatedly merging the most frequent adjacent pair; byte-level BPE encodes any input losslessly with 32k-200k tokens.
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Transformer block
ml-training · low: The decoder-only pre-norm block (attention plus MLP on a residual stream) behind every modern LLM, with exact shapes, parameter, FLOP and KV-cache counts.
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Text normalization
machine-learning · low: Rewrite messy text into one canonical form for matchers and models, or into spoken words for speech output (and back), keeping a map to the original offsets.
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Count-min sketch
data-structures · low: d rows of w counters estimate any item's frequency in a stream, overestimating by at most ε·N with probability 1-δ, in fixed tiny memory.
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Evaluation metrics
machine-learning · low: Precision, recall, ROC AUC, average precision, log loss, NDCG and pass@k computed correctly, plus paired confidence intervals for comparing models.
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Aho-Corasick multi-pattern matching
search-sort · low: Find all occurrences of many fixed patterns in one pass over the text, in time independent of the pattern count, using a trie with failure links.
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Perceptual hashing
search-sort · low: Compact fingerprints (64 to 256 bits) of an image that stay close under resizing and recompression, compared by Hamming distance; pHash, dHash and Meta's PDQ.
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SimHash
search-sort · low: Charikar's random-hyperplane sketch: a 64-bit fingerprint per document whose Hamming distance tracks cosine similarity, searchable in sub-linear time by exact block matches.
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Label aggregation
statistics · low: Combining noisy labels from several annotators: majority vote, Dawid-Skene EM, annotator weighting
Hash aggregation
storage · low: GROUP BY via hash tables with partitioning and spill to disk
Hierarchical timing wheel
systems · low: Timers bucketed by expiry into wheels of slots, coarser wheels for far deadlines: O(1) insert and cancel for millions of timeouts.
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k-means clustering
machine-learning · low: Partition points into k clusters by alternating nearest-centroid assignment and centroid averaging; k-means++ seeding makes it dependable.
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Quantile sketches
data-structures · low: Mergeable quantile sketches: t-digest, DDSketch, HDR histograms
Loss functions
machine-learning · low: The scalar a model minimizes: cross-entropy for classes and tokens, MSE or Huber for values, each with a stable form and simple gradient.
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System
Techniques · 11
Primitives · 44
abuse-classifier
Windowed stream aggregation
distributed · medium: Group events by event-time window per key, keep one partial aggregate per slice, and emit a window when the watermark passes its end.
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Active learning
machine-learning · medium: Choosing which unlabeled examples to label next: uncertainty, margin, diversity and committee sampling
Gradient-boosted decision trees (GB…
machine-learning · medium: Add small regression trees one at a time, each fitted to the loss gradient; histogram splits over 256 bins make it the strongest tabular default.
›
Near-duplicate detection with MinHa…
machine-learning · medium: Estimate set Jaccard similarity from k min-hashes and find similar pairs with banded LSH buckets; the standard dedup for web crawls, training corpora and sequence collections.
›
Text classification
machine-learning · medium: Assign one or more labels to a text; climb a ladder from regexes to linear models on n-grams, embeddings, fine-tuned encoders and LLM prompts, only as far as the data and budget demand.
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Dynamic batching
ml-training · medium: Queue independent requests and dispatch them as one batch when it is full or the oldest has waited max_delay; bounded extra latency buys throughput.
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Knowledge distillation
ml-training · medium: Train a small student to match a large teacher's softened outputs (plus the hard labels) so it keeps most of the teacher's accuracy at a fraction of the cost.
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Reputation scoring
security · medium: Turn per-entity good/bad event counts into a trust score that forgets old evidence, borrows strength from parent groups for new keys, and maps to allow, challenge or block.
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Unicode confusables
security · medium: UTS #39 maps every string to a "skeleton" so look-alikes collide, and restricts script mixing so most spoofs never get registered.
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Watermarks
distributed · medium: Event-time progress markers that bound lateness and trigger window results
LSM-tree
storage · medium: Buffer writes in memory, flush them as immutable sorted files and merge in the background; turns random writes into sequential I/O.
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Calibration
machine-learning · low: Make predicted probabilities match observed frequencies: measure with ECE, fix post hoc with temperature, Platt or isotonic scaling on held-out data.
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Embeddings
machine-learning · low: A learned table mapping discrete ids to dense vectors: gather forward, sparse scatter-add backward, row-wise optimizers to keep huge tables cheap.
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Byte-pair encoding (BPE) tokenizati…
machine-learning · low: Learn a subword vocabulary by repeatedly merging the most frequent adjacent pair; byte-level BPE encodes any input losslessly with 32k-200k tokens.
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Transformer block
ml-training · low: The decoder-only pre-norm block (attention plus MLP on a residual stream) behind every modern LLM, with exact shapes, parameter, FLOP and KV-cache counts.
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Text normalization
machine-learning · low: Rewrite messy text into one canonical form for matchers and models, or into spoken words for speech output (and back), keeping a map to the original offsets.
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Count-min sketch
data-structures · low: d rows of w counters estimate any item's frequency in a stream, overestimating by at most ε·N with probability 1-δ, in fixed tiny memory.
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Evaluation metrics
machine-learning · low: Precision, recall, ROC AUC, average precision, log loss, NDCG and pass@k computed correctly, plus paired confidence intervals for comparing models.
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Aho-Corasick multi-pattern matching
search-sort · low: Find all occurrences of many fixed patterns in one pass over the text, in time independent of the pattern count, using a trie with failure links.
›
Perceptual hashing
search-sort · low: Compact fingerprints (64 to 256 bits) of an image that stay close under resizing and recompression, compared by Hamming distance; pHash, dHash and Meta's PDQ.
›
SimHash
search-sort · low: Charikar's random-hyperplane sketch: a 64-bit fingerprint per document whose Hamming distance tracks cosine similarity, searchable in sub-linear time by exact block matches.
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Label aggregation
statistics · low: Combining noisy labels from several annotators: majority vote, Dawid-Skene EM, annotator weighting
Hash aggregation
storage · low: GROUP BY via hash tables with partitioning and spill to disk
Hierarchical timing wheel
systems · low: Timers bucketed by expiry into wheels of slots, coarser wheels for far deadlines: O(1) insert and cancel for millions of timeouts.
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k-means clustering
machine-learning · low: Partition points into k clusters by alternating nearest-centroid assignment and centroid averaging; k-means++ seeding makes it dependable.
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Quantile sketches
data-structures · low: Mergeable quantile sketches: t-digest, DDSketch, HDR histograms
Loss functions
machine-learning · low: The scalar a model minimizes: cross-entropy for classes and tokens, MSE or Huber for values, each with a stable form and simple gradient.
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Regularization
machine-learning · low: Techniques that trade training fit for generalization: weight decay, dropout, early stopping, label smoothing and data mixing, with the exact update rules and defaults.
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Fast hash functions
data-structures · low: Non-cryptographic hashes built from 64×64→128-bit multiplies and xor-shifts; pick by key size, trust level and whether the hash is persisted.
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Rolling hash
data-structures · low: Rabin-Karp polynomial rolling hashes and winnowing for substring fingerprints and document matching
Swiss table
data-structures · low: Open-addressing hash table that filters 8-16 slots at once with 1-byte hash tags and SIMD, giving fast lookups at 87.5 % load.
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Linear and logistic regression
machine-learning · low: Fit a weighted sum of features to a number (least squares) or a probability (logistic); the baseline every model must beat.
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MPMC bounded queue
concurrency · low: Vyukov's array queue for many producers and consumers: each slot carries a sequence number, so one CAS per operation claims a slot without locks.
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Backpressure
systems · low: Bound every queue and make a full queue push back on the producer by blocking, dropping, rejecting or withholding credit.
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Data augmentation
machine-learning · low: Generate label-preserving variants of each training example on the fly to enlarge the effective dataset and bake in invariances.
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Token sampling
ml-training · low: Turn a vector of scores into one chosen item with temperature, top-k, top-p, min-p, repetition penalties and a seed.
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Time decay scoring
search-sort · low: Scoring items by recency with exponential decay or half-life, combined with relevance
Bayesian rate estimation
statistics · low: Estimate a conversion or event rate from few observations with a Beta-Binomial or Gamma-Poisson update: two counters, an honest interval, and P(B beats A) directly.
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Sliding-window counters
systems · low: Count events in the last W seconds with a ring of sub-bucket counters; the two-bucket weighted estimate gives rate limits in 16 bytes per key.
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Unicode text tokenization for search
search-sort · low: Turn multilingual text into index terms: segment words (UAX 29 style, CJK bigrams), normalize, case-fold and accent-fold, identically at index and query time.
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d-ary heap
data-structures · low: Array heap with d children per node (d = 4 typical): half the binary heap's depth, siblings in one cache line, faster priority queues.
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Consumer offsets
distributed · low: Each consumer group stores one integer per partition, the next position to read, so a restarted consumer resumes where it left off with at-least-once delivery.
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False sharing
concurrency · low: Independent variables written by different cores on one cache line force the line to bounce between cores; pad or regroup hot data to fix it.
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Memory ordering
concurrency · low: What Relaxed, Acquire, Release and SeqCst atomics actually guarantee, what they cost on x86 and ARM, and which one each pattern needs.
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Fencing tokens
distributed · low: A number that grows with every lock grant and is checked by the protected resource, so a paused ex-holder's late write is rejected.
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Message sequence numbers
distributed · low: A per-stream counter on every message lets the receiver detect loss, duplicates and reordering, ack cheaply and resume after reconnect with "send from N".
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Segmented log
distributed · low: Split an append-only log into files named by their first offset, write only the newest, and find any record by binary search plus a sparse index.
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CPU caches and the memory hierarchy
hardware-os · low: Sizes, line widths and latencies of L1/L2/L3/DRAM on modern x86 and Apple M-series, and the data-layout rules that follow from them.
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AdamW
ml-training · low: Adam's per-parameter adaptive steps with weight decay applied directly to the weights; the default optimizer for transformers and LLM pretraining.
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Reverse-mode automatic differentiat…
ml-training · low: Record the forward computation on a tape, then sweep it backwards once to get the gradient of a scalar loss for all inputs.
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L-BFGS
numerics · low: Quasi-Newton minimizer that approximates the inverse Hessian from the last m gradient differences via the two-loop recursion; O(m·n) memory and work per step.
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LU and Cholesky factorization
numerics · low: Factor A = PLU (any square matrix, partial pivoting) or A = LLᵀ (SPD) once in O(n³), then solve each right-hand side in O(n²).
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PRNGs (PCG, xoshiro)
numerics · low: Small, fast, statistically strong non-cryptographic generators: PCG32 and xoshiro256**, with seeding, parallel streams and unbiased ranges.
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Bootstrap confidence intervals
statistics · low: Resampling-based confidence intervals for arbitrary statistics
Slab allocator
systems · low: Pre-carve pages into equal-size slots per size class with an in-place free list: O(1) alloc and free, no external fragmentation, cache-warm reuse.
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