Soh Kam Yung<p>Interesting look at an algorithm used for distributed collaborative text editing.</p><p>"Collaborative text editing algorithms allow several users to concurrently modify a text file, and automatically merge concurrent edits into a consistent state. [...] We introduce Eg-walker, a collaboration algorithm for text that avoids [...] weaknesses [of other algorithms]."<br> <br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14252" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2409.14252</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Algorithm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Distributed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Distributed</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/TextEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TextEditing</span></a> </p><p>Discussion at HN [ <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669840" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">1669840</span></a> ].</p>