Monthly Archives: July 2015

Starting Probabilistic Document Retrieval

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Naren Sundar

I want to work through some papers on probabilistic document retrieval mainly to find out the state of things in this area with regards to the depth of infiltration of generative models in this domain. Note that literature refers to … Continue reading →

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Reservoir Sampling

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Naren Sundar

If you want to uniformly sample a handful of elements from a very large stream of data you probably don’t want to read it all into memory first. It would be ideal if you could sample while streaming the data. … Continue reading →

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