Re: [GENERAL] Understanding and implementing a GiST Index

2014-10-10 Thread Connor Wolf
I had skimmed the presentation slides, but I hadn't looked that closely because it appeared to be using cosine similarity metrics, and only operated on matrices, neither of which are what I wanted. On closer examination, I think I could explode my packed hash values to a matrix. I'm not sure h

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding and implementing a GiST Index

2014-10-09 Thread Sergey Konoplev
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Connor Wolf wrote: > I'm trying to implement a custom indexing system using the GiST index > framework, and I have a few questions. > Basically, I'm trying to implement a system that allows me to search across > a set of 64 bit integers by hamming distance. This is

[GENERAL] Understanding and implementing a GiST Index

2014-10-09 Thread Connor Wolf
Hi there! I'm trying to implement a custom indexing system using the GiST index framework, and I have a few questions. Basically, I'm trying to implement a system that allows me to search across a set of 64 bit integers by hamming distance. This is intended to be used in searching for similar