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    5 days ago

    As per my other post, this person isn’t doing any of that.

    But, since you asked for papers on generic matching algorithms, I found this during the silent conniption fit you sent me into after suggesting that some random tumblr user plugged a tumblr bot directly into a state of the art genomics db.

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-022-04673-3

    Please note that while, yes, they ran this test on a standard office computer, they were only searching against 12 million characters.

    A single tebibyte of characters would be more like 1 trillion characters. A pebibyte would be more like 1 quintillion quadrillion.

    … much, much, much longer processing times.

    Edit: Used the wrong word for stupendously large numbers that start with q.