The perl.com article on building a vector space search engines is thought provoking. Once you can calculate the "distance" between two documents, you have input for a dynamic spring/glue particle model that you can animate and drag around. Ooooh, aaah. So tempting. And I've got big backlogs of mailing list archives that I could use as input.
But I so do not need another bright, shiny toy project right now.
Besides which, ActiveState doesn't have PDL available via PPM at the moment. And they're missing a bunch of other stuff, too. Hm...
Your last entry said you'd just brought up Knoppix. A perfect sandbox for stuff like this, no?
Re:ActiveState?
dws on 2003-02-21T23:14:12
It's time I'm lacking, not sandboxes.:( Re:ActiveState?
VSarkiss on 2003-02-22T00:49:32
Yep, I sympathize completely.
