That seems to be a collection of simple AI related searching & matching techniques . Features include other types of validations & authentications also, many of them unknowingly implemented by us..
I am not sure what you show is what Dick meant by features & the discussion being lost.. Dick,please explain.. Thanks for the changes, JD On 8/12/10, Amarjeet Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > And what on earth are these algorithms for string comparison then? > > http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/index.html > > Reg > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: >> I can't help but feel that the discussion has got a little bit lost in >> the rough :-). I do wish I had pulled a better example out for that >> original post, but lest anyone not remember, the point was to show how >> closures (and in particular good language support for them) greatly >> cuts boilerplate and enhances readability. I could have used an >> example with some genetic calculation code or something like that, but >> it would have needed far more supporting material. Point is, Java >> exhibits its own ugly backwaters of complexity, and they tend to be in >> features we use all the time (like anonymous inner classes). >> >> Dick >> >> On Aug 8, 3:23 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So close. >>> >>> java's own String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER uses this tactic, and as far >>> as case insensitive tactics go, this really isn't such a bad one. >>> However, they completely bollocks it up by doing this character-by- >>> character for some completely unfathomable reason. This is dumb, and >>> explains why STRASSE and straße aren't equal. >>> Character.toUpperCase('\u00DF') can't very well return "SS", so it has >>> to return the unicode codepoint for capital eszett. >>> >>> Nevertheless, as someone else has pointed out to me, both großman and >>> grossman are somewhat common german surnames and shouldn't be >>> considered equal, so, in many ways, yes, 'case insensitive' as a >>> concept doesn't really make sense beyond english. >>> >>> Doing a canonical comparison to answer the question: "Are these >>> strings most likely intended to be equal considering that they are >>> both written in language X", is completely valid though, and that's >>> exactly what java.text.Collator is for. I don't think this is mission >>> impossible. It's just crazy complicated. >>> >>> Many props to A McDowell for teaching us all about the case folding >>> rules of unicode. I learned something new. >>> >>> On Aug 8, 9:34 am, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> > So, without some kind of case translation dictionary that can be >>> > trusted on the particular strings we want to test, can we assume >>> > that's it's not actually a solvable problem? (because, like divide by >>> > zero, the question isn't valid to start with) >>> >>> > Could you maybe get better results by (if upperCompare || >>> > lowerCompare)? >>> >>> > Was I serious for a second there? >>> >>> > GERBILS! >>> >>> > That's better. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> > > > > -- > Amarjeet Singh > Phone: +91-98712-76661 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
