[Developers] Random pick...

[John Giannandrea]

Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> I need to randomly pick a few topics of a specific type out of  
> Freebase.
> Any suggestions on how to do this without first requesting the  
> entire list?

We dont currently have a good way to do this.
One option would be read the first and last timestamped instances of a  
type and then run rand over the range and pick limit:1 at some random  
timestamp ranges.
-jg

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