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>QUIC is a brand-new internet transport protocol In 1979 QUIC was software (for IBM mainframes IIRC) that produced a printout of lines in lexicographic order w
by hollerith 7y ago
>QUIC is a brand-new internet transport protocol
In 1979 QUIC was software (for IBM mainframes IIRC) that produced a printout of lines in lexicographic order with the twist that the words on the line were shifted to eliminate initial noise words. E.g., THE TWO TOWERS appeared in the printout as TWO TOWERS THE (and maybe also appeared as TOWERS THE TWO).
- yeaaaaah 7y agoThankfully we've now realized that "initial noise words" are fine and shouldn't be shifted when sorting.
- tialaramex 7y agoMmm? No, there are a bunch of places where it doesn't matter as much because digitisation means searching is unnecessary, but when it matters, it still really matters. In my music player under artists The Chemical Brothers sorts with Chvrches not with The KLF. Human indexes are still really valuable in reference works, maybe we're getting close to AI making a useful stab at it, but pick up a copy of K&R and compare most auto-generated indices (if you can find a book that even bothers with an index) today, it's night and day.
- jhayward 7y agoI think you may be referring to the concept of KWIC [1], "Keyword in Context", which has been used in text-based indexes for publications for quite some time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Word_in_Context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Word_in_Context