> When I came across a need for the algorithm in my work, it took a lot of detective work to even find it. There was no source code online. The algorithm is not referenced often, and when it is, it is in a highly obscure fashion.
Well, the author certainly isn't helping that problem with a clickbait title like that, and being all mysterious for the first few paragraphs, teasing "you almost certainly don't know this".
"Dealing cards from an extremely large deck: Vitter's Algorithm"
Except he doesn't even explain the algorithm, just some source code (which is super unclear, no comments, short variables). And the unhelpful comment that it was hard to figure out from the paper. All the reason to put a more descriptive title.
How does he expect to help people find this, figure this out, or was this entire post just to brag that "his" solution is better than anyone else's because he found the right algorithm almost nobody else knows about?
Well, the author certainly isn't helping that problem with a clickbait title like that, and being all mysterious for the first few paragraphs, teasing "you almost certainly don't know this".
"Dealing cards from an extremely large deck: Vitter's Algorithm"
Except he doesn't even explain the algorithm, just some source code (which is super unclear, no comments, short variables). And the unhelpful comment that it was hard to figure out from the paper. All the reason to put a more descriptive title.
How does he expect to help people find this, figure this out, or was this entire post just to brag that "his" solution is better than anyone else's because he found the right algorithm almost nobody else knows about?