Hi everyone,
After much frustration, the ElfData plugin 4.75 is out! This version
compiles for UB, Win32, Carbon and Linux. It has been fully tested
with RB 2006r4, using my super-thorough Unit Testing project that
will run all code paths from my plugin.
http://elfdata.com/plugin/
It also has some name changes to make the plugin neater and simpler.
The changes are outlined here: http://elfdata.com/plugin/beta.html
I've also written a new page that helps explain a little about what
ElfData offers people above using plain RB. I'm not sure I wrote it
perfectly, but it does give the idea if you can handle my not being a
skilled writer. http://elfdata.com/plugin/gives.html
Oh yeah, I've made the super-fast ElfDataFuzzy class public again
(does fuzzy string searching across a dictionary in a tiny amount of
time). I decided that DESPITE that it is an invention of mine using a
novel technique to solve a known problem (spelling-checker type
problems but can be even used for image recognition and many other
purposes)... it's not worth patenting, mostly because I'd have to
patent about 20 or so approach variants to cover the thing, and if I
did get away with it I might as well be patenting dynamic programming
itself, which would be pretty unmoral.
You can look at the Fuzzy.rb project in my plugin download package,
to see how the ElfDataFuzzy class works. Eventually I'll like to
extend it to perform Smith-Waterman type fuzzy matches and not just
Levenshtein. But I'm having trouble wrapping even my considerable
head around the extra difficulties this approach brings up,
especially when paid work takes up most of my time. I'll get it done
though, eventually.
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