I’d thought of making a word quizzer as a web application to improve my vocabulary when I took the GRE test a couple of years back. I’d written one in Visual Basic 6 when I wrote SAT , but desktop applications are boring! I got inspired to bring my long standing idea to fruition and [...]
Categories: web
Tagged: quiz, vocabulary, web, word, wordza
Every once in a while, someone comes up with a way of doing things in an extremely obvious and simple way. When this happens, a zillion others say, “of course that’s the way to do it!”. Songza is a music search engine and jukebox that is dead simple to use. You should try it to [...]
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In an earlier article, I mentioned that I was trying to use Wikipedia data to do news article clustering to make it easy for me follow news feeds. I have made some progress. I’ve written an algorithm to produce a list of Wikipedia articles relevant to the input text. Input text has to be in [...]
Categories: programming,wikipedia
Tagged: data mining, graph, graphviz, programming, python, semantic analysis, text processing, visualization, web, wikipedia
I was hosted with “routhost” until April this year when I decided I needed more features like SSH access, build environment so I would be able to download and compile applications and most of all more disk space. After much hunting around I discovered DreamHost. The feature list is astounding. Here are a few to [...]
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Tagged: dreamhost, web, web hosting