mattb

Here are the areas I've been researching, some things I've read and some open source packages...

Nearly all text processing starts by transforming text into vectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space_model

Often it uses transforms such as TFIDF to normalise the data and control for outliers (words that are too frequent or too rare confuse the algorithms): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf

Collocations is a technique to detect when two or more words occur more commonly together than separately (e.g. "wishy-washy" in English) - I use this to group words into n-gram tokens because many NLP techniques consider each word as if it's independent of all the others in a document, ignoring order: http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/10/22/collocations_1/

max-mapper

var serialport = require('node-serialport')

var sp = new serialport.SerialPort("/dev/ttyO3", { 
  parser: serialport.parsers.raw,
  baud: 9600
})

sp.on('data', function(chunk) {
  console.log(chunk.toString('hex'), chunk.toString(), chunk)
})

jtacoma

Changing the Public API

When I started looking for ways to help on the "github.com/alecthomas/gozmq" package a few months ago, a recurring topic in discussions was that an earlier decision to provide a hidden struct type through a public interface type had become restrictive. We couldn't just drop the interface and make the struct public because that would be backwards-incompatible. Or could we?

No

This had to be the first considered option, and was the standing decision at the time. If we could continue providing what the package aims to provide without breaking backwards compatibility, then by all means, we should not break it.

Unfortunately this meant we couldn't provide all that we aimed to provide. Or could we?

creationix

function run(generator) {
  // Pass in resume for no-wrap function calls
  var iterator = generator(resume);
  var data = null, yielded = false;
  
  next();
  check();
  
  function next(item) {
    var cont = iterator.next(item).value;

karlseguin

package dnscache

import (
  "net"
  "sync"
  "time"
  "math/rand"
)

var (