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		frabert 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tabl... I think the article's author may have seen the cs.DS classification on the arxiv and assumed it meant Data Science instead of Data Structures

nerdponx 7 months ago [–]

It's also possible that they don't actually know the difference, or was even asked to change it by an editor to make it sound more trendy. Skepticism of even good journalism is healthy. Gell-Mann amnesia and all.

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