On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, robin szemeti wrote: > On Wednesday 24 October 2001 16:15, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
> > Hmm, this is where admit I'm crap and provide the CFT club with something > > to ponder. I have made pairwise comparisons of a few thousand flies > > and stored the similarity scores in a *large* file in a particular order > > (to save me storing their names and making the file even bigger). > > I'd like to make 2 points ... > 1) all flies look the same .. > 2) "storing their names"? .. you give your flies names? ... how cute :) *shhhhhh* Don't let the flies hear you say that. Anyway, when you've got thousands of the little beggar flying around you need some form of identification. > I say "CREATE TABLE flies ( id_a INT(6), id_b INT(6), score FLOAT(4,3) )" > "SELECT something FROM flies WHERE ...." > > let Oracle/MySQL/Postgres do the speed/memory worrying for you. It sounds > like you're going to want to get at this data in various ways, just stick it > in a table and forget about it. Hmm, that means thinking, and this is only a very preliminary proof-of-concept analysis. But thanks for the advice ;-) L. "It appears to be paranormal in origin." "How can you tell?" "Well, it' so shiny."
