Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based on what you have starred

Re:Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based o... by iKlsR on Sunday October 01, 2017 @06:29PM (#15380233)

Does this only recommend awesome style repos? I got about 20 of those despite having over 400 stars, majority computer graphics. Also a lot of Ruby, a language I don't use or less than 1% of my stars. Odd.

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Re:Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based o... by c5urf3r on Sunday October 01, 2017 @07:09PM (#15380440)

Problem is this, the suggestions are generated by using the repo descriptions as the starting point dropping all references to language and non-English words. What this means is even if you have a lot of stars on ruby repositories, if the search on terms derived from the above process leads to non-ruby repositories that is what is shown. Will look into tuning it better.

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Re:Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based o... by mrkstu on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:47AM (#15384166)

I'd suggest adding a filter at the top of results to filter by language- i.e. a checkbox by each language result at the top to specify which results to filter to

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Re:Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based o... by devrandomguy on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:01PM (#15381222)

OTOH, I kind of like the idea that something like this could lead me to discover a programming language that is better suited to the subjects that I am interested in.

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