Saturday, April 04
Awards And Stuffs
The coveted (and rarely-given) Doesn't Suck Award today goes to the Xapian search engine. I've been testing it out for my day job, and it's quite impressive. I'll definitely be using it in a future version of Minx - our current search function works by brute force, which works surprisingly well, but will become a problem sooner or later.
The pre-release versions of Xapian feature not just full text and tag-based indexing, but geospatial and image indexing too. And when I say image indexing, I mean "find me all the images that look similar to this one". It does - as far as I can tell - a search in 49 dimensions to pull this trick off. Seriously.
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The coveted (and rarely-given) Doesn't Suck Award today goes to the Xapian search engine. I've been testing it out for my day job, and it's quite impressive. I'll definitely be using it in a future version of Minx - our current search function works by brute force, which works surprisingly well, but will become a problem sooner or later.
The pre-release versions of Xapian feature not just full text and tag-based indexing, but geospatial and image indexing too. And when I say image indexing, I mean "find me all the images that look similar to this one". It does - as far as I can tell - a search in 49 dimensions to pull this trick off. Seriously.
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