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by anujkk 5115 days ago
How about creating a recommendation engine for HN articles? It should recommend articles upvoted by users that have similar likes/dislikes as me.

I would also like to browse HN articles/comments on basis of topics. For example, right now if I want to find HN posts related to "machine learning" I use HN Search. Can you make it better by using machine learning techniques so that I can get all relevant HN articles on a given topic sortable on basis of upvotes and time?
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fjellfras 5115 days ago
Thank you, that sounds like a good idea. I may start looking into the HN api. I have been working to build a search engine for reddit using their api for a week now (not very mature, I have only started to build a database of tags for the posts) but I believe this idea will work here as well.
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anujkk 5115 days ago
May I know which books/courses/blogs you used to learn machine learning? I'm learning it myself and I have just finished reading "Programming Collective Intelligence".
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fjellfras 5115 days ago
Sure, I started off with Andrew Ng's course on coursera. Then I started with the book called Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. I also have the PCI book to supplement Mitchell's book with code examples. I got Bishop's book too but to be honest I'm finding it a little harder to follow than the others.
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hoodwink 5115 days ago
I'm almost through Andrew Ng's course. Did you do all the programming activities to reinforce the lectures? I've been keeping pace with the lectures, but hadn't done the homework/programming. Now I'm going back and completing them one-by-one.

I was thinking about watching Tom Mitchell's CMU course online next. Have you checked that out?

PS. Is it just me or is Andrew Ng incredible? I thought I had good professors in college, but he is on another level.

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fjellfras 5114 days ago
No I am exactly in the same place. I missed the programming activities (I was going to use numpy instead of octave and it turned out to be too much of an effort). I have re-enrolled in the course going on now so I am also going to do the assignments now.

Also thanks for mentioning Tom Mitchell's course, I didn't know about it. I will be sure to check it out.

And yes I agree Andrew is a great teacher. It became even more obvious when I tried to read up on areas he had not covered in the course.

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