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crawdog
on Aug 4, 2020
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Let's build a full-text search engine
You could build a bloom filter with the profane words, then check your tokens for the page against that filter.
teraflop
on Aug 4, 2020
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That would make sense if your list of expletives was too large to fit in memory, which would be... impressive, to say the least.
GordonS
on Aug 4, 2020
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I'm Scottish, and I'll say it's definitely possible :p
Keyframe
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if profanities were single words only. What if they weren’t? You’d have to have a giant list of permutations and build a huge-ass bloom filter. Still doable though, but then spelling errors (or not)...
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