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 …
Rank aggregation is a problem with many important applications and naive approaches to it go wrong in subtle ways. Let’s say that your national Quidditch league is dominated by five major wizard sports newspapers. Yes, the ones with moving images and everything. Every week after the games, each of them publishes a ranking of the star players. For now, let’s suppose that the set of players under investigation is always the same, as the problem becomes a bit more complicated otherwise. …