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As the article mentions at the very bottom, this technique is not accurate.

This fact makes it unusable for many use-cases, but it’s an interesting and good article nevertheless.



Yes, and if I were to make one addition to the article it would be to add a section talking about the implications of that 0.5% error rate with some examples of uses where this would be appropriate and where it wouldn't be.


it's also in the title: probabilistic many-to-many relationships




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