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Z-Order curves are used to encode multiple dimensions to one dimension while maintaining locality. This feature makes them useful for indexing multidimensional data such as geospatial data. In BigTable-like systems (Accumulo, HBase, Cassandra a z-order curve index can translate a bounding box query to a single range scan. As this example shows, sometimes the locality properties of the curve are very good and few points outside the bounding box are scanned. Other times though, many points outside the bounding box are scanned if using a single range.

This example was inspired by Mike Bostock's Quadtree example

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import {  take, put, call, fork, cancel, cancelled } from 'redux-saga/effects'

import {EVENT_POLLING_START, EVENT_POLLING_STOP} from "constants/eventPolls";
import {ClientEventType} from "constants/serverEvents";



function* handleEventA(serverEvent) {
    yield put({type : serverEvent.type, payload : {name : serverEvent.eventAData}});
}

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Cheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction

Cheng Lou, a former member of the React team, gave an incredible talk at React Europe 2016 entitled "On the Spectrum of Abstraction". That talk is available for viewing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE

It's only a half-hour, but it is mind-blowing. It's worth re-watching two or three times, to let the ideas sink in.

I just rewatched the talk for some research, and wrote down a summary that's semi-transcript-ish. I didn't see any other transcripts for this talk, other than the auto-generated closed captions, so I wanted to share for reference.

Summary