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I don't believe the graphs that appear here. Trying it myself I obtain a very different thing. For example, from "matlab vs." the second completion is "octave
by enriquto 6y ago
I don't believe the graphs that appear here. Trying it myself I obtain a very different thing. For example, from "matlab vs." the second completion is "octave", nowhere to be seen in tfa.
- teach 6y agoGoogle results are "bubbled" based on the search profile they have on all of us, but I don't think it makes this technique any less useful.
- enriquto 6y agoThis google "feature" is really annoying. I have a private firefox window cookies specific for google searches to mitigate this effect. Yet it is still there. While the visualizations are cool, I'm a bit afraid of how much of the displayed word cloud is a visualization of the "bubble" that the author lives in. It would be cool to see how different these graphs are on each of our computers!
- foreigner 6y agoGoogle has a URL parameter to turn the personal search feature off.
- enriquto 6y agoSure, but it does not really work. It still tries to infer your search "preferences" from your IP, and whatnot.
- mikkom 6y agoAnd there is a reason why the bubble is still there even in private browsing.. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jvvp/google-sued-tracking-users-incognito-mode https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jvvp/google-sued-tracki...
- caf 6y agoIt looks to me like that graph was produced using k=3 for the k_edge_subgraphs() pruning step, and likely the suggestions for "octave" only included one or two other ML-related terms (because they are crowded out by musical terms). (For me the "octave vs" query gives "matlab", "Python", "pitch", "rhythm discord" and "key" as the first 5 suggestions).
- cswilly 6y agoI found "octave" is a direct connection of matlab using @anvaka's very cool tool: https://anvaka.github.io/vs/?query=matlab%20 https://anvaka.github.io/vs/?query=matlab%20