Month: March 2015

Microsoft announces Windows 10 release set for this summer in 190 countries

Enrico

Microsoft plans to release Windows 10 this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages, the company announced today, though a specific date was not named. In a blog post on the Windows website, Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft’s operating systems team, didn’t elaborate on the release time frame beyond saying it was shared at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community event in Shenzhen, China, today. The time frame aligns with an earlier Neowin report that the company is planning to finish the operating system in June to ready it for consumer…

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PSC.Search: a new implementation of Levenshtein distance algorithm

Enrico

This article describes a simple implementation of the string search. It can be used for approximate string matching (for more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_string_searching). Other algorithms for approximate string searching exist (e.g., Soundex), but those aren’t as easy to implement. The algorithm in this article is easy to implement, and can be used for tasks where approximate string searching is used in an easy way. The algorithm used the Levenshtein-distance for determining how exact a string from a word list matches the word to be found. Information about the Levenshtein-distance can…

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