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Jeff, you might be interested in a paper I just published on using hash digests for both message and content identity. We make it possible to figure out if two files, even if they might not be the same format, contain the same content: http://tw.rpi.edu/web/doc/parallelIdentitiesOGD
Commented Apr 6, 2012 on Speed Hashing at Coding Horror
Speed Hashing
Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data. A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory. This is a 128-bit MD5 hash you're looking at above, so it can represent at most 2128 unique items, or 340 trillion trillion trillion. In reality the...
This whole thing reminds me of the whole "short items" from Norm Macdonald spoofing Larry King. Who we won't have around to pick on anymore.
Commented Jul 3, 2010 on Knocking around in my head at librarysarie
Knocking around in my head
I keep thinking of things I want to write about here, but never actually get the motivation (or time) to do it. Or really, to be fair, it's that I don't get the time or the motivation concurrently. I tend to want to write when I'm, say, driving, but when I have the time to do so I feel like jus...
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