Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Nov 7, 2009, 8:54 pm
This commercial just caught my eye and made me think about faceted search. Posted in advertising, commercials, faceted search, hcir
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Oct 31, 2009, 3:08 pm
We decided to do a complicated pumpkin design this year and it turned out surprisingly well!  I present, the Daedalpumpkin:   The Daedalpumpkin     Posted in beagles, halloween, p...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Sep 13, 2009, 1:28 am
There are quite a few well-known libraries for doing various NLP tasks in Java and Python, such as the Stanford Parser (Java) and the Natural Language Toolkit (Python).  For Ruby, there are a few res...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Aug 16, 2009, 11:02 pm
This post contains NO spoilers. I saw The Time Traveler’s Wife with my wife today.  I had read the book about a year ago, and had been looking forward to the movie.  I wasn’t disappoint...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Aug 4, 2009, 7:10 pm
I already knew Wolfram|Alpha could do some cool astronomy calculations, like comparing the escape velocities of the Galilean moons.  A recent W|A blog post also pointed out that you can calculate the...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Aug 1, 2009, 10:42 pm
I’m always a little annoyed I have to implement sorting Map keys by their values myself in Java.  It seems like they should be a part of the standard Collections library or something.  Maybe t...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Aug 1, 2009, 8:00 am
When Lazyfeed announced a limited round of beta invites on TechCrunch, I admit, I lusted after them.  Only 250?  I wanted to be one!  But alas, I was put on the waiting list.  It’s a decent ...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Jul 30, 2009, 10:28 pm
Github just announced their own version of the Netflix Prize.  Instead of predicting movie ratings, Github wants you to suggest repositories for users to watch.  This is different from the Netflix P...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Jul 30, 2009, 9:20 pm
A while back I ported David Blei’s lda-c code for performing Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Ruby.  Basically I just wrapped the C methods in a Ruby class, turned it into a gem, and called it a ...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Jul 16, 2009, 6:00 am
A twitter friend (@communicating) tipped me off to the UEA-Lite Stemmer by Marie-Claire Jenkins and Dan J. Smith.  Stemmers are NLP tools that get rid of inflectional and derivational affixes from wo...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Jul 12, 2009, 8:00 am
Thanks to Odiogo.com (via @johndcook), this blog now has a podcast powered by speech synthesis.  Not having heard any decent speech synthesis for open domain text (maybe I’m behind the times he...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Jul 11, 2009, 10:00 pm
Programming in Scala Two weeks ago, I picked up my copy of Programming in Scala, which had been languishing on my shelf for months.  I pre-purchased it since I went to high school with one of the au...
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Jason A. posted an article on The Mendicant Bug - Jul 11, 2009, 9:22 pm
R.I.P. Movie Rating Prediction There is no longer any reason to bother researching new ways of predicting the ratings users will give to movies.  It’s time to move on to more interesting thing...
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