FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
| <html> | |
| <head><title>Fuzzy Search</title> | |
| <script id="algorithm"> | |
| //This algorithm is an original work by Andrew Matte in Toronto, andrew.matte@gmail.com | |
| //You are completely free to do whatever you want with this algorithm but, | |
| //please credit me if the project is open source. Also there is no warranty that is it perfectly suited to your use case. | |
| //Written originally in Visual Basic to replace VLOOKUP's fuzzy lookup in Microsoft Excel | |
| //in 2014, implemented in MS-SQL, Python, and JS. | |
| //Apologies for any similarities to an algorithm you personally might have written independently. | |
| var proximity = (wordA, wordB) => { |
| # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| # | |
| # Description: This file holds all my BASH configurations and aliases | |
| # | |
| # Sections: | |
| # 1. Environment Configuration | |
| # 2. Make Terminal Better (remapping defaults and adding functionality) | |
| # 3. File and Folder Management | |
| # 4. Searching | |
| # 5. Process Management |
| /* | |
| Element to slide gets the following CSS: | |
| max-height: 0; | |
| opacity: 0; | |
| overflow: hidden; | |
| transition: max-height 0.4s ease 0s; | |
| */ | |
| /** | |
| * Like jQuery's slideDown function - uses CSS3 transitions |