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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 Uncategorized

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 Uncategorized

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 Uncategorized

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 Uncategorized

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 Uncategorized

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 Uncategorized

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 Uncategorized