Getting set up with Ruby and Rails
I’ve had a lot of people asking for help setting up a Ruby on Rails environment recently so figured I’d put a post together detailing how I set up my boxes. This won’t be a guide for everyone, but it’s a tried and tested setup that not only performs well, but is also well set [...]
Building Backchat, Part 2
Or: How I learned to give up on projects. Okay, so, Backchat was hugely interesting as a project. Eventually, I produced a set of graphs using the classifier that showed sentiment over time. These graphs aren’t too accurate but are fairly good at showing how things were going. However, after this I pretty much dropped [...]
Experiments in CL, NLP: Building Backchat, Part 1
Okay, so I may have something wrong with me. As soon as anything important (in my view) comes up, I have to build an app for it. Well, sometimes. Still, the impulse is strong, and so at 2:30 AM or thereabouts I registered a domain name and got to work. The aim of the project [...]