On: What are Bloom filters? (2015)

[taeric]

Bloom filters originally upset me because I expected the word "Bloom" to refer to an action of the algorithm. Not so someone's name.

I'm fond of Concierge filtering as an easy description of how they work. I view them as a brief conversation with the front desk staff at a hotel to determine if someone is there. "Is anyone here wearing a hat? Is anyone here over 6'? Did anyone come in carrying a briefcase?"

[Bognar → taeric]

Or "Guess Who?" Filtering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess_Who%3F

[tnecniv → taeric]

>Bloom filters originally upset me because I expected the word "Bloom" to refer to an action of the algorithm. Not so someone's name.

I thought Canny edge detection had to do with the fact that the edge detector was canny.

[abecedarius → tnecniv]

There ought to be a list of surprisingly-eponymous things like Page rank, Killing vector, Poynting vector, ...

[booleandilemma → taeric]

How do you feel about shellsort?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellsort

[taeric → booleandilemma]

Exact same problem. :)

At least that is sometimes written as Shell's sort.

[supercoder → taeric]

Agreed!