We can think of a hash table as a simple array where positions are determined based on a key, allowing us to find the associated value quickly. But you might be wondering: if I can only define numeric ...

Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is a family of hashing methods that tent to produce the same hash (or signature) for similar items. There exist different LSH functions, that each correspond to a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part blog series. Part 1 described how graph data relates to the in-memory graph of structures commonly used as models (as in “model-view-controller”) ...

Over the past few years, as the use of mass spectrometry (MS) has increased, multiple spectral libraries, databases and software frameworks have been created to enable sharing and searching of MS data ...

Sorry to users, I long since switched to using Bloom filters and don't currently have time to maintain this. There are known bugs in the implementation, and many unrealized performance opportunities ...