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Very interesting! I am currently building an RSS aggregator, too. Mine is little more complex, though - I wanna be able to rate items as interesting or boring
by krylon 11y ago
Very interesting!
I am currently building an RSS aggregator, too. Mine is little more complex, though - I wanna be able to rate items as interesting or boring and use some kind of filter (currently, a simple Bayesian classifier, I intend to replace or at least enhance with something more sophisticated over the holidays) to weed out news that I am not interested in.
The biggest problem is that web design is not my strong suite (to put it mildly), so the thing looks pretty ugly. Classification does not work very well, yet, but I am not sure if this is because the classifier sucks in general or if my training set is too small at the moment (I've only been using the thing for a couple of days now).
Anyway, it is quite interesting to see another approach to the problem.
- alanpost 11y agoDo you use a single classifier for your entire feed, or do you categorize the feeds and maintain a classifier for each topic? (Or, as always, secret option #3: neither.)
- krylon 11y agoCurrently, I use a single classifier for all the news items. I store the items, along with manual ratings, in a database, from which the classifier is trained. (This also allows me to keep a history of older items, which I can search.) I hope to make it more sophisticated, eventually.
- dubbel 11y agoIf you use Bootstrap CSS it looks pretty generic, but it's also nearly impossible to make it look bad. Sounds like a cool project.
- pyre 11y agoThere's also stuff like MDL[1] (or Angular Material[2] if you're using AngularJS). [1] http://www.getmdl.io/ http://www.getmdl.io/ [2] https://material.angularjs.org/latest/#/ https://material.angularjs.org/latest/#/