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Let me guess where you're from - Making a predictor web application (nxn.se)
9 points by val 3144 days ago | 6 comments


1 point by hernamesbarbara 3136 days ago | link

It'd be cool if the results were clickable, so users could indicate actual origins of their names. Could make for a super interesting follow up post too

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1 point by val 3135 days ago | link

I was thinking for a while to add a "Is this correct?" kind of checkmark for people to click. But it greatly increases the complexity (have to add a database etc). And out of the 20 or so people who try it every day, I guess only a small fraction would actually click it. Not to mention how many would click it truthfully... Many of the queries people enter are profanities :p

But I think using those sorts of inputs for correction in an active-learning style is generally interesting. No idea if there's an "active" version of Multinomial NB.

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1 point by yaoha2828 3143 days ago | link

The training data is highly biased, you should take prior prob into consideration, I tried a lot of chinese names, no chinese pops out. The result is not satisfactory at all

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1 point by val 3143 days ago | link

Yeah, the training data doesn't contain China, the US, India or Russia. I write about this in the post.

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1 point by yaoha2828 3142 days ago | link

Thanks for the reply!

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1 point by quasiresearcher 3144 days ago | link

The UI interface is sensitive to whitespaces.

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