{"id":112,"date":"2016-10-11T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/uncategorized\/my-mother-is-a-text-classification-algorithm\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T03:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:50:57","slug":"my-mother-is-a-text-classification-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/2016\/10\/my-mother-is-a-text-classification-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mother is a Text-classification Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, whilst having an extended discussion of the type of tiny bananas we were eating, my mother took out a scrapbook to see if she had kept any newspaper clippings on bananas. She had made these clippings in the 80s &#8211; before I was even born. The book fell naturally open at a page about tomatoes, which she had partially cancelled out, and had annotated the rest with these mysterious letters written into the margin&#8230; Why had she made these strange annotations? She really could not recall or explain to me why she had done this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3419\" src=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tomatoes_dingmother.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tomatoes_dingmother.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tomatoes_dingmother-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tomatoes_dingmother-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tomatoes_dingmother-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tomatoes_dingmother-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A closer reading reveals that what she has done is to cancel out the non-factual portions (ie: the story about how the grower was &#8220;thrilled&#8221; and all that) and then she has given each sentence a category?<\/p>\n<p>LET ME DECODE IT FOR YOU<br \/>\n<b>H<\/b> refers to <b>History<\/b> of Tomatoes<br \/>\n<b>T<\/b> refers to Facts about <b>Tomato Varieties<\/b><br \/>\n<b>CT<\/b> refers to Methods of <b>Cooking Tomatoes<\/b><br \/>\n<b>GK<\/b>&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure but they are all about the flavour and acidity of Tomatoes<\/p>\n<p><center>MY MOTHER IS A TEXT-CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM!<\/center><br \/>\nI suppose I am really my mother&#8217;s child&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><small><b>#latergram<\/b>: Post has been backdated to 11 Oct 2016 which is the date I first observed this phenomena<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, whilst having an extended discussion of the type of tiny bananas we were eating, my mother took out a scrapbook to see if she had kept any newspaper clippings on bananas. She had made these clippings in the 80s &#8211; before I was even born. The book fell naturally open at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[163,116,306,307,305],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tomatoes_dingmother.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}