Thanks for the elaborate answer! I knew about things like acoustic fingerprints but not that people use the term "hash function" to describe something that indicates similarity.
Could something like Hamming distance be called a hash function too? It's not mentioned on its Wikipedia page.
it's worth reading and understanding the ideas behind LSH and hamming distance. there are some... fundamental mathematical relationshps there that are still being ... hashed out.
Could something like Hamming distance be called a hash function too? It's not mentioned on its Wikipedia page.