Warning: If you have a vested interest in what I do after I graduate (you know who you are; if you’re not sure if this applies to you, then it doesn’t) or you don’t have the stomach for the inherently impolitic nature of job-search aporia, you should probably stop reading.
As some of you know, I’ve [...]
In line with a previous post I decided to have some more fun with names.
I used the census names data to generate 200 names by taking a random first name and a random last name and combining them. The first names were chosen 50/50 from the male and female lists. [...]
Every now and then someone (you know who you are) asks if the feature vectors one passes into LDA should be vectors of word counts (i.e., vectors of non-negative integers) or vectors of word presence/absence (i.e., vectors of binary values). Now the former gives strictly more information so the short answer is that you [...]
