Extra PolynymousI watched a great video about the creation of the NATO phonetic spelling alphabet, and wondered if I could do something similar with optimization. The video showed that the NATO alphabet was designed to make it easier to spell words over radio and telephone channels, which may have bad signal quality. There are a few […]
In my previous post, I did some statistical analyses of the Dresden Files novels. Now I want to do some fancy stuff with vectors. Word2Vec is a method for turning a bunch of words in text into related vectors, as the name implies. Using a shallow neural network, it represents finds vectors such that words […]
The Dresden Files is a series of very fun books by Jim Butcher, with a wizard detective getting into trouble and saving the world and all that. I’ve wanted do do some Natural Language Processing (NLP) on a body of text, and with fifteen novels so far (two more later this year!), this is a […]