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by jamesbowman 3909 days ago
Instead of that complicated minute/day/week/year data retention scheme, why not just randomly replace an entry in a fixed-size store? So the probability of a datum being in the store is inversely proportional to the log of its age. And it's a one-liner.
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couldn't understand your idea. can you please elaborate ?