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    "excerpt": "Note for\nnumberphiles:\nall numbers have been rounded to their first significant\ndigit, because I\u2019m a fan of Rob Eastaway\u2019s\n\u201czequals\u201d method\nof getting to the point when it comes to estimation. It\u2019s much\nmore valuable to walk away with the heuristic \u201csome dude got\na 300x memory reduction by swapping out a database he hacked\ntogether for a tiny, static, specialized data structure that\ndoes exactly what he needs it to and no more.\u201d",
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    "title": "Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary"
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