This is a short novella, so short that I finished it on the flight back to New York. But it is so hard to read. I almost quitted at the first several pages, confused by the three stories which intertwined and jumped back and forth, as well as the abstract writing and metaphors throughout the book. It is an alternate history that combines three storylines: a folktale in the collective
Last week I went to my friend’s home for Spring Festival dinner. We were making dumplings from scratch. I thought: perhaps it is a good chance to share on Facebook? I have been watching live streaming for a while on various platforms such as Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Periscope, YouNow, Twitch. I am fascinated with novel features of these stream tools. Facebook Live really has many fancy features such as
This exercise will use NLTK database and distinguish four authors via PCA. As a programming beginner, there might be some mistakes in this post. If any please comment below. Any feedback is welcome. NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) is a platform with plenty of human language data with over 50 corpora and lexical resources, such as Brown Corpus, Project Gutenberg, NPS Chat, etc. This post we will use text from Project Gutenberg and analyze four
We see plenty of data visualization every day, on newspaper, billboard, smartphone, etc. Information about politics, culture, business is rapidly converted from numeric data to graphic images like bar charts, scatter plots, maps, networks etc. The goal of visualization is to aid our interpretation of data by leveraging the visual system of human beings to recognize patterns, trends, and identify outliers (Heer, 2010). When designing the visualization of data, what
Note: if you are an experienced programmer, it will not help. This post is suitable for those who have little programming background and need detailed explanations, like me. 最近在上Python的课，老师介绍了一个经典的用贝叶斯实现简单的单词拼写检查的例子。为了弄懂到底在讲什么，像我这种设计背景没编程基础的只能一句一句抠咯。本文适合和我一样没什么基础的，专业程序员们请绕道。