I do a lot of work with textual data files, things like membership lists, race results, and team rosters—the sort of thing you get when exporting from a database or saving a spreadsheet in ...

Heads up: Searching for hair inspiration just got a hundred times easier. Today, Pinterest launched a new technology dubbed “hair pattern tool” that allows users to search for images by hair type. The ...

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The proliferation of digital texts and textual databases during the second half of the last century produced the need for efficient search methods and efficient data structures. These data structures ...

Pinterest has launched a new search feature that could make it easier for Black, Brown, Indigenous, Latinx and other POC users to find hair inspiration that would suit their hair types. The visual ...

The trie data structure is one alternative method for searching text that can be more efficient than traditional search approaches. Here's a trie class you can create in C#. The proliferation of ...