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I tried this kind of news aggregation but unfortunately the source material is mostly garbage and people prefer a few hand selected news to an automatic feed.
by visarga 5y ago
I tried this kind of news aggregation but unfortunately the source material is mostly garbage and people prefer a few hand selected news to an automatic feed.
The classification problem is interesting though. I ended up with a long list of hundreds of topics. Most articles fall in two or more. There's also a sub-problem of clustering news by subject.
- jacobobryant 5y ago> people prefer a few hand selected news to an automatic feed. That's actually one of The Sample's strengths--it leaves most of the curation to humans, and then it helps people find those curators.
- visarga 5y agoI like that, so it's helping humans find the news but deferring the final selection.
- jacobobryant 5y ago(response to edit) > The classification problem is interesting though. I ended up with a long list of hundreds of topics. Most articles fall in two or more. There's also a sub-problem of clustering news by subject. Yeah, certainly difficult. I'm doing it partially manually right now but also with fastText[1]. I'd like to switch completely to fastText soon though since more often than not the newsletters I add don't fit well with the checkbox categories on the landing page. Clustering the newsletters with fastText is pretty easy, but it might be hard to generate good tags for the landing page that match up with the clusters. [1] https://fasttext.cc/ https://fasttext.cc/