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Re:FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust by esafak on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:36PM (#36344760)
How did they manage to write this article without once mentioning the pioneering LSH algorithm?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing

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Re:FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust by nighthawk454 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:21PM (#36345248)
> The approach we use here is based on a family of algorithms called "Locality Sensitive Hashing" used in the popular library annoy. This article's goal isn't to introduce a new fancy algorithm/library but to describe how vector search works using real code snippets.

Right at the top...

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Re:FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust by esafak on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:57PM (#36345662)
The article was edited in response to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36344870
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Re:FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust by nikhilgarg28 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:19PM (#36345916)
Yes, it wasn't initially there mostly due to an oversight but we later edited the article.
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Re:FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust by nighthawk454 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:55PM (#36347921)
Oh ok, cool you're checking feedback and updating. Might put in an 'updated at' or something :P. But thanks, enjoyed the post!
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Re:FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust by nighthawk454 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:56PM (#36347940)
My bad! That's some fast updating
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