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Re:Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures yo... by TheFragenTaken on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:03AM (#32189688)
I didn't think that would be an obscure data structure, but Locality-sensitive hashing [1] helps in so many cases. Like nearest neighbour search, collision detection, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing

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