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For anyone looking to use this, please note that the benefits of LSH rapidly diminish if your nearest neighbours are in fact far away.


My startup has a fast nearest neighbor engine that allows to have far matches: http://simmachines.com/Products/r01.html We hope to be the "berkeley DB" of the big data era. Feedback would be greatly appreciated!


> Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

My main piece of feedback is that explicitly comparing your product to a database engine that people love to hate is probably not a great way to market it. Lots of us have horrible memories of badly-corrupted Berkeley DB databases.


Interesting point, thank you!


To add, these types of algorithms have been around for a couple decades in literature. There are reasons they are not commonly used. The concept is fine n the abstract but an implementation that does not break on real-world data sets is very difficult.




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