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		The simhash patent has expired and is now free to use (patents.google.com)
		12 points by ubutler on Sept 11, 2024 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

ubutler on Sept 11, 2024 [–]

Simhash is an extremely fast and simple algorithm for detecting near duplicate text at scale which makes it particularly useful for deduplicating AI training datasets.

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