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Post by welldoneator »

apical_dendrite wrote: post #46
ajewhere wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The Wikipedia edit that this thread is discussing was as follows. I think it's worth printing it here to make the point that the commenter above you is completely right about the prevalence of anti-semitism in online discourse today: > Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; September 1, 1931 – April 14, 2026) was a Jew (a.k.a. kike) rat computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the 1976…

I commend you for the attempt, even if it’s clear that it’s falling on deaf ears to who you’re replying to.

The rest of us Jews appreciate that you didn’t let it slide.

It’s hard not to wonder why they even bothered clicking into this thread other than “oh the name sounds Jewish, I can push my narrative” especially with respect to their comment history.

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Post by jonstewart »

adrian_b wrote: post #2

Michael O. Rabin had important contributions in many domains, but from a practical point of view the most important are his contributions to cryptography. After Ralph Merkle, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Michael O. Rabin is the most important of the creators of public-key cryptography. The RSA team (Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman) is better known than Michael O. Rabin, but that is entirely due to…

I would argue that nondeterministic finite automata are both more significant and more practical.

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Post by hheyeuehe »

frig57 wrote: post #47
riddlemethat wrote: post #26

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Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.

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But every surrounding country driving out the Jews over the last eighty years so they have nowhere else to go was fine I guess?

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by ajewhere »

welldoneator wrote: post #51
apical_dendrite wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Wikipedia edit that this thread is discussing was as follows. I think it's worth printing it here to make the point that the commenter above you is completely right about the prevalence of anti-semitism in online discourse today: > Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; September 1, 1931 – April 14, 2026) was a Jew (a.k.a. kike) rat computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the 1976…

I commend you for the attempt, even if it’s clear that it’s falling on deaf ears to who you’re replying to. The rest of us Jews appreciate that you didn’t let it slide. It’s hard not to wonder why they even bothered clicking into this thread other than “oh the name sounds Jewish, I can push my narrative” especially with respect to their comment history.

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Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by wk_end »

puttycat wrote: post #5

@dang this deserves a black ribbon

"@dang" doesn't do anything last I heard (though at this point it's used often enough that maybe the HN folks should consider it). If you want to reach the mods you can contact hn@ycombinator.com I believe.

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Post by peterbonney »

I had the incredible good fortune to take one of his classes in college, and I loved it so much I took another just to learn from him again. A tremendous intellect AND an incredibly engaging and talented instructor. It would be an exaggeration to say that I knew him, but nevertheless he had a great impact on my education and my life. He will be missed.

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Post by vlovich123 »

xorvoid wrote: post #18

Thank you Michael Rabin for your excellent work. Rest in Peace. Rabin Fingerprinting is one of my favorites of his contributions. It's a "rolling hash" that allows you to quickly compute a 32-bit (or larger) hash at *every* byte offset of a file. It is used most notably to do file block matching/deduplication when those matching blocks can be at any offset. It's tragically underappreciated. I've been meaning to write…

Important to note that FastCDC is about an order of magnitude for block deduplication and is generally considered the state of art for such an approach (speed of computing the hash is more important than absolutely optimal distribution of hashes).
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