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by LAC-Tech 1084 days ago
Can you explain "high-dimensionality access methods" to me? (Or if it's too big for an HN comment, maybe recommend a paper).
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This guy talks a lot of crap. See his website for examples, and don't waste your time with him

<<<There is one significant drawback that should not be understated. Algorithm design using topology manipulation can be enormously challenging to reason about. You are often taking a conceptually simple algorithm, like a nested loop or hash join, and replacing it with a much more efficient algorithm involving the non-trivial manipulation of complex high-dimensionality constraint spaces that effect the same result. Routinely reasoning about complex object relationships in greater than three dimensions, and constructing correct parallel algorithms that exploit them, becomes easier but never easy.>>>

http://www.jandrewrogers.com/2015/10/08/spacecurve/