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by tamana 3679 days ago
Look up "bloom filter" and the computer science of spellcheck.

You are off by a factor of 1000 or more for cost of spellcheck

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I think "the cloud" is making people forget how simple some common features actually are. The default assumption seems to be that it needs to be in the cloud because it's too hard to do locally.