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Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS

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Re: Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS

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Post by codemonkey-zeta »

ReD_CoDE wrote: post #21

Wow, great! I'm looking for an open source solution to find algorithm names inside the academic articles (normally PDF), and perhaps on the web too Is there any suggestion?

I've thought about doing this before as well. One challenge you might face occurs when one algorithm goes by different names in different circles. I can't think of good examples that I ran into, but some statistical methods have one name when physicists use it, another for biologists, another for statisticians, etc.

Could be interesting to compare the similarities of the semantics of the algorithms as understood by an NLP model. E.g. depth-first-search vs. monte-carlo, or dijkstra's vs Kruskal's. Both used in similar contexts, so you could group algorithms into families. I'd love to see more NLP-driven meta-analysis of scientific literature.

Re: Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS

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Post by ReD_CoDE »

codemonkey-zeta wrote: post #22
ReD_CoDE wrote: post #21

Wow, great! I'm looking for an open source solution to find algorithm names inside the academic articles (normally PDF), and perhaps on the web too Is there any suggestion?

I've thought about doing this before as well. One challenge you might face occurs when one algorithm goes by different names in different circles. I can't think of good examples that I ran into, but some statistical methods have one name when physicists use it, another for biologists, another for statisticians, etc. Could be interesting to compare the similarities of the semantics of the algorithms as understood by a…

I couldn't agree more, and I think we can make a graph that shows parent and childs. The main algorithm and its children

Re: Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS

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Post by compressedgas »

paraschopra wrote: post #25

Isn’t this exactly like what Google released as open source a couple of months ago https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/qna

This is glue for that that makes it a browser extension.

Re: Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS

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Post by JoshMandel »

krick wrote: post #16

Did someone try it? Is it actually good?

I tried it just now; after "make develop" and installing the unpacked extension in Chrome developer mode, I can't get it to produce anything except "No Results," even when search for words and phrases that appear verbatim on a page. It took ~20 seconds to load the first time and ~1 second per kB of text each time I search, but no hits.
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