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Elben Shira

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Software engineer interested in programming languages, distributed systems and machine learning.

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The Universal Data Structure

Whether you write compilers, web services or Django admin panels, you probably use hash maps more than all other data structures combined. In fact, you may not remember the last time you used anything else. This is not a coincidence: any conceivable data structure can be implemented with a hash map; therefore, there…