ProgrammingBecome a memberSign inGet startedMichal StrehovskýFollow·16 min read As someone who grew up in the times of 1.44 MB floppy disks and 56 kbit modems, I’ve always liked small programs. I could fit many small programs on a floppy disk I carried with me. If a program couldn’t fit on my floppy disk, I started thinking about why — does it have a lot of graphics? Is there music? Can the program do many complex things? Or is it simply bloated?Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash These days, disk space ...

Reading time ~5 minutes In my ongoing series on calculating similarities one angle always seemed worth trying, and was pointed out many times on Reddit - use C++ and matrix manipulations. Similarity calculation fits very nicely into matrix representation, and there are algorithms targeting sparse matrix manipulation. So why did I delay it for so long? Because I had other angles I wanted to try and, from the looks of it required significant changes in the existing code base. But since last op...