Category: Programming

  • Data Mining: Super Bowl Pools

    Data Mining: Super Bowl Pools

    This year’s Super Bowl wasn’t a good one. Not because I care who won- I don’t- but because I lost every Super Bowl box pool I entered. Granted, law of large numbers, etc. this can happen. But I wanted to see if my complaints were justified. Let’s take a look at my work pool. I…

  • NLP: Part I

    NLP: Part I

    Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a pretty cool thing to have on your resume right? So, I figured I’d repurpose an old personal project to be more abstract, and in the process, incorporate NLP. The Challenge Here is the challenge: given a book with a number of different point of view (POV) characters, figure out…

  • Query Builder: Part I: Introduction

    Query Builder: Part I: Introduction

    Training a program how to (insert verb here) boils down to defining the rules, and the actions.