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Content agregation vs. Human Editors

June 2nd, 2009

This idea came up in a conversation the other day with somebody… The crux of it is that more startups, toy websites or other research projects have been created over the years to aggregate blogs, twitters, lives into a single stream. Everything from facebook, friendfeed, google reader, netvibes, etc. Hey, even [...]

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Clustering …

March 26th, 2008

I’ve been playing with clustering my email, just a sample set of 300 or so messages.  It’s been a while since I’ve done any “NLP” work and it’s really quite fun.
Some learnings:
As the dimentionality of space increases everything starts to sit at the origin:

initially you might have 120 unique words in an email message, some [...]

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