{"id":28,"date":"2006-12-04T22:59:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T22:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/hashing-searching-and-sketching\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:00:50","slug":"hashing-searching-and-sketching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/hashing-searching-and-sketching\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashing, Searching and Sketching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are doing a lot of work at Talis at the moment on refining the indexing and searching capabilities in our platform. To that end I&#8217;ve trying to get up to speed on subject; anyway I came across this fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-2473927019456727523&#038;q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU\">tech talk<\/a> over at google on using Hashing and Sketching to get improved search results. Its a little over an hour long, and does get very technical in parts but nonetheless it gives a really insight into the possible gains that can be achieved through locality sensitive hashing functions and sketching ( the compression of large complex objects into a few bytes and then comparing these representations to determine how similar objects are).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are doing a lot of work at Talis at the moment on refining the indexing and searching capabilities in our platform. To that end I&#8217;ve trying to get up to speed on subject; anyway I came across this fascinating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/hashing-searching-and-sketching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,9,5],"tags":[387,399,389,385],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-talis","category-tech-talk","category-technology","tag-google","tag-talis","tag-tech-talk","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}