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http://www.ime.usp.br/~is/papir/sctp/ (Via Imre Simon :: home page)

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I've been recently peripherally involved in a project which attempts to perform a fuzzy match on names in a MySQL database. With "Homethinking":http://www.homethinking.com, we had to do something similar regarding matching for realtor and brokerage names. Its also related to some of the Lucene consulting I've been involved with. Its an interesting problem. There's an […]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitap_algorithm Interesting fuzzy string match algorithm using bitwise operations

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Hadoop's SequenceFile is at the heart of the Hadoop io package. Both MapFile (disk-backed Map) and ArrayFile (disk-backed Array) are built on top of SequenceFile. So what exactly is SequenceFile? Its class javadoc tells us: Support for flat files of binary key/value pairs.– not very helpful. Let's dig through the code and find out more: […]

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Just read that "MySQL Falcon storage engine":http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.1/en/se-falcon.html has been "open-sourced":http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/02/209227. http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2006/04/jim_starkey_int.html has a really good, concise brief on Falcon and what it does.

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http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html What a goooooood idea..

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Just discovered this gem on LtU here: Ehud Lamm – Re: Growing a Language 5/25/2004; 3:02:35 PM (reads: 118, responses: 0) (in response to a previous post: I'll now turn the tables back: is it possible that the "commercial" languages (VB, Java, C#) gained popularity because they were created to provide programmers what they wanted […]

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