New blog post!
I use ntHash all the time to hash k-mers, yet it turns out it has some unexpected flaws (collision propagation, bias on leading zeros...). The good news: each of them can be fixed!
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NtHash is a popular method for hashing k-mers in bioinformatics, yet it has some surprising flaws. In this post, I walk through a few of them, and show that they can arise naturally, without an advers...
