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		perfmode on May 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structu... index every photo taken in the past ten years (1.8 trillion per year) for each photo, extract and index SIFT vectors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_tran...

thfuran on May 11, 2023 [–]

Is sift still used?

perfmode on May 12, 2023 | [–]

i’m curious also.

i used it as an example of a way a dataset might have a huge number of feature vectors.

curious if there are better ways to do this now.

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