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“How do we count the frequency of any key in a streaming dataset“? Let's imagine that we have an incoming stream of data and we have to support the following operations: Insert(key): should increase the key count by value 1. Query(key): should return the frequency of the key accumulated so far This problem looks very trivial to solve using the HashMap data structure. We can define a Java HashMap (or similar data structure) to increment the count of every key during the Insert(key) operation and then return the corresponding count for the Query(key) operation.

Source: Wordtips Methodology - The authors collected 195,248 tweets with the hashtag #wordle and extracted the game score from 142,669 of them. They filtered out tweets where the score and the grid of colored squares contradicted each other, as well as tweets where the score was X/6, indicating that the puzzle was not solved in six guesses. Sweden is the world’s best country at Wordle, with an average of 3.72.

Your weekly dose of music, media & money. Click here for a full subscription. Over the past decade, Blake Shelton’s career has looked more like rock star’s than a country crooner’s: he joined The Voice opposite Adam Levine, appeared in a Hollywood flick based on a video game, and even married alt-rocker Gwen Stefani. He’s also earning like a rock star these days. Shelton raked in $83 million in 2021, thanks mostly to a catalog sale worth more than $50 million.

I have looked at country risk, in all its dimensions, towards the middle of each year, for the last decade, for many reasons. One is curiosity, as political and economic crises roll through regions of the world, roiling long-held beliefs about safe and risky countries. The other is pragmatic, since it is almost impossible to value a company or business, without a clear sense of how risk exposure varies across the world, since for many companies, either the inputs to  or their production processes are in foreign markets or the output is outside domestic markets.

Hello and welcome to Courtside. Take a break from the game. Pull up a chair. Settle in. Have some water. And relax.  As often as I can, I’ll be bringing you honest, revealing and fun Q&As with some of the greatest players in WNBA history as well as rookies, veterans and All-Stars in the league today.  Now and again, I’ll also be posting columns focusing on what’s happening in the WNBA or sharing my thoughts about basketball-related current events, issues, and/or players in the news cycle.

It would take an entire library of books to cover all of the schemes, techniques and nuances associated with the Canadian football Cover 3 Hold coverage. That is not the attempt here. Instead of an exhaustive report, this newsletter will outline a few basic starting points when it comes to setting up this coverage within your defence. I hope to elaborate on some of these concepts in future editions of the Canadian Football Chalk Talk newsletter.

Something from the Have Not Been the Same files today: a 2000 conversation with Margo Timmins, the singer of Cowboy Junkies, and one of three Timmins siblings in the band, along with bassist Alan Anton. Cowboy Junkies play the Danforth Music Hall Tuesday night, October 3. There are still tickets available. (This week’s live music listings here.) This year marks the 35th anniversary of their landmark album The Trinity Session.

Several Dallas Cowboys topics are currently brewing, and we'll continue to stay on top of them. However, this presents a great opportunity to delve into a year-end evaluation of the 2023 rookie class. Many of you have inquired whether this is the worst draft class I've witnessed in Dallas. Of course, it's not. Firstly, they've just begun, and it's way too early to make a definitive judgment. I won't reiterate my mention of the Bill Walsh book, but you've probably heard me refer to the entire chapter discussing the challenges rookies face in the NFL.

Cowen’s First Law states that: There is something wrong with everything. This simple idea is an epistemological superpower. First, as Tyler Cowen wrote, if you don’t understand the weakness of an argument, you don’t fully understand it. Second, Cowen’s First Law is a great test of intellectual honesty. Whether you’re reading an op-ed, a scientific paper, or a business proposal, ask yourself: “From 1 to 5, how open is the author about the weakest point in their argument?