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Re:Book list for streetfighting computer scientists by bondant on Sunday November 15, 2026 @08:16AM (#50506727)
Some of these books are quite old (like 20 years old or more), I wonder if there isn't newer books on the same subject but with more recent algorithms or methods.

For instance the book "Metric and Multidimensional Data Structures" from Samet, is described as very encyclopedic, but it's from 2006, isn't it missing new research? I'm not sure a twenty years old encyclopedia is very useful in computer science as the field move somewhat fast.

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Re:Book list for streetfighting computer scientists by pdhborges on Sunday November 15, 2026 @08:49AM (#50506930)
Last time I touched that book was 14 years ago. Yeah not only it is missing a bunch of recent algorithms and quantization methods like HNSW but also as a reference it devotes many many pages to the zoo of tree based methods that frankly did not feel very iluminating at the time an was mostly completely useless since then.
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Re:Book list for streetfighting computer scientists by assimpleaspossi on Sunday November 15, 2026 @09:46AM (#50507297)
The fundamentals won't be different. Get the fundamentals first.
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