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Ordering Tagged Items by Similarity

Posted on December 4, 2012 by anescient

So I’ve got this web-based image gallery. The images in it are organized with simple tags (there’s a many-to-many relationship between images and tags). Every image has at least one tag, and almost all images have several tags. When a … Continue reading →

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Basic Spatial Hashing with Boost

Posted on March 31, 2011 by anescient

So let’s say you’ve got some particles in 2-dimensional space. There they are. Now let’s say you want any two particles which are very close to each other to interact. You need to know which pairs are close enough. You … Continue reading →

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2007 wants its page files back

Posted on August 26, 2010 by anescient

compcache. Use it. The general idea is to set apart some physical memory as swap space, with compression on the pages going in. Much of what’s in RAM is very compressible, so a fast compression algorithm can do a lot. … Continue reading →

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