[erlang-questions] Reservoir sampling gen_server

[Robert Schonberger]

hi everyone,I wanted to give my brain a bit of an exercise this morning, and
so I wrote a gen_server that, given an arbitrary number of inputs, can
provide a statistically random sample of those inputs.

The inputs are passed via handle_cast, and a retrieval via handle_call. If
you're interested in keeping a sample of a large amount of data, this could
be interesting for you.

Any comments would be appreciated, and patches / advice more so,

http://schonberger.org/2009/03/28/reservoir-sampling-gen-server-in-erlang.html

Thanks,
Robert

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Robert Schonberger
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