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✨ It's new samwho visual essay o'clock! ✨ Reservoir sampling is one of my favourite algorithms. It allows you to sample from a set without knowing the size of that set. I try to assume no prior knowledge, and use no scary math notation. Just beautiful visuals. Let me know what you think! ❤️

Helps if I link to it, doesn't it. samwho.dev/reservoir-sa...

It’s been posted to the orange site. If you read it and enjoyed it, I’d be super grateful for an upvote over there. 🙏❤️

posted on the red (?) site 🫡 lobste.rs/s/r0axbc/res...