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  • Updated the HN News Recommender to V0.2.3

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    Get it here.

    Read, if you'd like: Improving the HackerNews News Recommender

    Any problems: Go to the extension's options and reset the data, but should be working flawlessly.

    Updated Git source here as well: https://github.com/normano/ycChrome

  • Improving the HackerNews News Recommender

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    Alright, so I've given it much though and there are several issues to address. One of them being that the data gets corrupted. Secondly, I have fixed weights on the recommender, which is probably adjusted to my style. Thirdly, feature elimination, to address some issues with too much noise. Finally, the last issue is addressing bugfixes, which there might not be much.

    Resolved

    Data corruption. I've been investigating this one and it is very hard to reproduce, but I see that there is no need to keep saving the...

  • Chrome Extension: HackerNews News Recommender

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    Update [11/03/12] Posted to Chrome Web Store

     

    Update [11/02/12]: Looks like Chrome is blocking installation of my extension, which is fine. You can download the git repository and install from the extensions dashboard until I post to the webstore.

    Download Link.UPDATE: Git source here: https://github.com/normano/ycChromeUPDATE #2: v0.2.3 is out. Click download above!

    I have finally gone and done it! I thought of a really cool way to create a recommender using a statistical algorithm of choice, so I chose the e...

  • PHP - Client -> API model

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    I recommend throwing out your current model of web programming and use a Client - API model. I personally think this is a better way of handling requests. Basically, you code PHP and it implements a REST API that serves data in whatever format you'd like (e.g. JSON, XML). Once you've got this part down, you can leave the templating to client-side Javascript. PHP now takes on responsibility of serving data to the client.

    Why do I recommend using client-side JS for templating? You will be using the client's br...

  • Looks like I'm never switching to NoSQL

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    For big projects anyway. MySQL Cluster 7.2 is out and it looks like I will be considering this thing for Project Flare. What is Project Flare you say? It's just a code name and I'm working on it.

  • Set Up Dev/Staging/Production Repositories using Git

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    It appears my last post was somewhat well received, so I think I'll follow up with the things I did.

    Imagine that you are me and you'd like to figure out how you imagine updating code from server to server. That's right version control is the first thing to come to mind. Well, which one should I pick? SVN? Git? CVS? Usually, i'd say SVN because TortoiseSVN makes it really simple to connect and update your repositories (refer to my SVN post), but I've been in the git mood, so I decided git would be the perfec...

  • Using Git with a Dev/Staging/Production Workflow

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    Update: Here is how I did it. Setup dev/staging/production with git

    Looks like I decided to attempt creating a private git repository on my server. It works, but that was after so much frustration is figuring out how to follow the workflow from my last SVN post. Essentially, I wanted a simple dev -> staging -> production workflow. Considering how I've done it so far, it is a little more complicated than I thought, well in git anyway.

    I created a repository in a separate folder from the production directory, w...

  • IDEA: Development Environment to Production

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    This is just an idea to improve my workflow. Yes, I still use SVN! As much as git is new, hip and cool. Its just like how I still use MySQL vs. NoSQL. Don't be a hater. Use what you need now and adaptively change later.

    So far, I've been looking/thinking about how to setup a development to production environment and I've come to a interesting solution. My development environment I have a Windows PC (Apache and TortoiseSVN installed) with all of my projects then I have a Virtual Machine with linux installed w...

  • Project Flare #3

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    I’ve been reading research papers mainly on social networks, recommendation, and that sort of blah. A lot of it is social science, but statistics plays heavily on understanding what they use and why. Good thing I don’t need to be a social sciences major to grasp what they are saying though! Anyway, collaborative filtering will play heavily on what I’d like to do. Tagging is most important to the idea. I mean sure there are many tagging websites and ker-blah, but not the way I’ve thought it up so far. I’ve a...

  • Project Flare #2

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    Alrighty, I've written down some thoughts and drawn some mock ups of how I'd like it to look and so far... it looks like it was built for a tablet. Very simple interface and you'll see how simple it is once I get a prototype working. I envision the home page as using a traditional layout, but when you login that's where the magic happens. Instantaneously, we break from the traditional layout to a content focused layout with ZERO on-site menus. The menus will come from clicking one button from either side of...