Dave Anderson on Nostr: My god though, the sheer amount of effort and thought that went into this. And sure, ...

My god though, the sheer amount of effort and thought that went into this. And sure, the result is complex, but also a thing of beauty!

Here, have a single algorithm that can compare strings according to every human language, dialect and variant, and incorporate the cultural variations of all of them.

Oh and also here's a bunch of implementation tips to get incredible performance, and various time/space tradeoffs available for different shapes of applications and machines. Just, wow.