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Yeah the visual really helps with explaining the concept. I read the wiki article on bloom filters first, which was great for understanding the motivation for a bloom filter, but I subtly mis-interpreted how the hash functions were used to set the bit-vector. The visuals in the linked post clarified this really succintly.


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