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GSFRS : The Story of a Gigantic Random Sampler by Dr. Prasanta Pal, Brown University

                                                            What is GSFRS ? All about data and more data! We want stuff! A lot of stuff! Often, more stuff than we can handle. These days, with everything turning digital, it means, we are looking for a lot of data which in disguise means trouble! Let's understand the kind of of troubles we may be asking for through some stories. Suppose you've been collecting radio signals from the alien world and storing it in a gigantic file (call it the big book of universal secrets) for last million years. By now, the size of the book got so big that you started counting it in exabytes! (10^18 bytes). If someone tells you that the secret equation for time-travel is buried somewhere around the 3 trillionth line and you want the secret code right now because a giant asteroid is about to hit the earth, there is no other way around but to time travel! How do you retrieve the time-travel code from "The big book of universal secrets" at