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Comment on Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

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Implementing all-pairs similarity search on a few hundred million records. Naively approached, the complexity of this is O(N^2), so had to come up with novel ways to make it finish in a reasonable amount of time and with limited resources.

I'm sitting with a similar problem right now! Got any pointers?

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