As I develop the algorithm, I am often forced back to the beginning of a data stream to see if something more elegant could accomplish the same task. Working alone has given me flexibility to aggressively modify the algorithm in ways that would have faced more resistance in a team setting. I would love collaboration because personal eurekas can be harder to come by, but I have enjoyed the absence of a sunk cost that a team project might exhibit. In the spirit of starting over again, I’d like to cover some of the fundamental aspects to the algorithm.