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More thoughts on topic models and tokens
I’ve been thinking a little more about how to work with the topic modeling extension I recently built for bookworm. (I’m curious if any …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
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Building topic models into Bookworm searches
I’ve been seeing how deeply we could integrate topic models into the underlying Bookworm architecture a bit lately. My own chief …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
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Searching for structures in the Simpsons and everywhere else.
This is a post about several different things, but maybe it’s got something for everyone. It starts with 1) some thoughts on why we …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
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Markdown, Historical Writing, and Killer Apps
Like many technically inclined historians (for instance, Caleb McDaniel, Jason Heppler, and Lincoln Mullen) I find that I’ve …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
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The Simpsons Bookworm
I thought it would be worth documenting the difficulty (or lack of) in building a Bookworm on a small corpus: I’ve been reading too …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
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Finding the best ordering for states
Here’s a very technical, but kind of fun, problem: what’s the optimal order for a list of geographical elements, like the states of the …
Last updated on Apr 12, 2020
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Bleg 1: String Distance
String distance measurements are useful for cleaning up the sort of messy data from multiple sources. There are a bunch of string …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
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