This glosses over so much detail that really helps you understand MinHash and LSH. I feel like matt has really solid intentions, but this is one of the algorith

This glosses over so much detail that really helps you understand MinHash and LSH. I feel like matt has really solid intentions, but this is one of the algorithms where actually reading the math and understanding it helps you write a good implementation. You're also missing the intuition (random projection) behind this sort of method by skipping out on the maths. For book chapters: Sarier Har-Peled's comp-geo book has a pretty solid chapter on LSH from a geometrical point of view and builds it up from basics in Hamming Space. Otherwise the Ullman book the author recommends is pretty excellent. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html