One of the many reasons why people are beautiful and fascinating is the way we change. I get reminded of how much I have changed everytime I see a photo of myself from high school, and this always triggers memories of how my opinions and attitudes have changed over the years. Some of the beliefs I held most strongly ended up being abandoned completely, while others have not changed much. …
In document classification and other natural language processing applications, having a good measure of the similarity of two texts can be a valuable building block. Ideally, such a measure would capture semantic information. Cosine similarity on bag-of-words vectors is known to do well in practice, but it inherently cannot capture when documents say the same thing in completely different words. …
I hacked the SocketIO client
0.9.16 to support
specifying a special port (wsport) to use only for the WebSocket protocol,
while keeping all other traffic on the default port. This is required by setups
such as OpenShift which require WebSocket traffic to come over a different …