Comment by alan_cx
13 years ago
Just an observation:
Political threads usually get several comments about being off topic for HN, some times quite strong. However, not one descenting comment for this, which to me seems equally, if not more, off topic.
I personally really don't mind either subject, but how is this considered more relevant to HN than politics? Seems people are just as interested.
I don't think this is a problem with this topic, even as a non fan its an interesting discussion. Its more interesting to me that the group reaction is different.
Even if the topic is not something you care about the techniques and methods gwern uses are not often talked about here and useful for a variety of text processing tasks.
His methodical analysis and scientific rigor is always what I wish other posts could have. If nothing this is a post which will motivate others to write better.
The cluster analysis is cool - not seen that before. Wonder what the results of Latent Dirichlet Allocation might have gotten...
This is an article about Bayesian statistics, which is usually considered as quite hip in these places. You do remember who wrote the "A Plan for Spam"-paper, after all?