On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
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> I think Orly means things like algorithmics, complexity theory, automata,
> abstract languages, the theory of Turing machines, discrete math, etc. The
> things which are fundamental to any study of computers; stuff which
> doesn't change regardless of what company, what programming language, what
> train of thought happens to be dominant at any given time. Stuff that
> further abstracts the ideas behind computer programming.
Yes. That's what I mean. I've been programming long enough (and I am a
fairly competent programmer) to realize that I feel (sometimes severely)
my lack of background in these topics.
Ok, here's a fairly simple example from my recent experience: how do you
efficiently index a large field in a SQL database so that you can do
nearness searches on it? the standard SQL "LIKE" clause is no good,
because it forces full-table scans and in any case cannot return ranking
results. In other words: how do you implement ConText/InterMedia-like
functionality in Oracle without actually having that package (which is
very expensive)?
I haven't found a solution to this problem, and I often think if I knew
more about NLP topics I might've..
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