I’ve spent a bit of time messing around with the algorithms behind NerdlyNews. It was doing what I wanted, picking out interesting articles from a large amount of noise, but given the large number of choices, it was still too noisy itself. I’ve tweaked a couple of parameters …
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PageLoadStats is now on GitHub
PageLoadStats is a tool I wrote to grab performance and stats about web pages and chart the data in a simple and useful way. It also has the ability to send alerts when the page load times moving average gets past a configurable alert level. It’s written in Python …
read moreA Bit of Modular Web Design in Django
I found myself creating a web page intended to display a set of data objects, each object similar in format. A pretty common need. The simple thing to do would be to simply iterate over the list of data in the django template, for example:
read more{% for o in some_list %} <div …Naive Bayesian Probability is very cool…add bi-grams for extra coolness.
I’ve written a Django web-app that I’m still tinkering with. I have it slowly gathering information from multiple sources and classifying each piece (corpus) for me. I’m really happy with the progress. NLTK made implementation pretty straight forward, though there was a definite learning curve for me …
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