I discuss how much I like django but how I’d love to have a set of basic website templates.
Archive for March, 2009
I love django, but …
Posted in django, Website, tagged django, template, Website on March 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
nosegrading MATLAB
Posted in Quick Thoughts, teaching, tagged matlab, mlabwrap, nosetest, teaching on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I discuss the possibility of using a set of nosetest plugins to create a “grading” program for python or MATLAB assignments in a class.
MATLAB or Python, why choose?
Posted in Future Work, Quick Thoughts, tagged matlab, mlabwrap on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I discuss using MATLAB from python and using mlabwrap to mediate the interaction.
Finally got a number!
Posted in Natural Language Processing, Quick Thoughts, tagged prediction on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hi all, I’ve been doing a lot of background work making subclass-able functions to control the predictors (more on that later), subclassing the NLBayes predictor to work with the buzhug database, writting an ROC calculator, etc. I finally got an actual prediction number! 0.587 AUC on a small gold-standard dataset. For a first run (and [...]
How to define Good
Posted in Natural Language Processing, programming, tagged generators, prediction, ROC on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I discuss using the Area under the ROC curve as a measure of a classifier’s performance.
django for more than HTML
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I discuss the usefulness of template languages to output structured languages other than just HTML.
Sometimes a Thesaurus just makes things worse
Posted in Quick Thoughts on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m all for targeted advertising but this just made me laugh. For those who don’t know, free WordPress blogs have a little targeted advertising. The most common I see is for purchasing your own domain to host you blog. Wordpress suggested: “WordPress tip: Be the master of your own domain – make this blog greatsmallsupport.com [...]
