What’re you doing this Friday? If you’re around Whistler, Canada, you should come to the “Applications for Topic Models: Text and Beyond” workshop at NIPS, where you can learn about all sorts of new, well, applications for topic models! I’ll be delivering a talk on financial applications of topic models, such as identifying industrial sectors and discovering the underlying relationships between companies. It’s a way of learning about the economy without having any distracting chance of making money off of it!
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January 1, 2010 at 11:10 am
monika
Without having any distracting chance of making money off of it, I’d put money on it that the second “of” is off. The pair “off of” keeps turning up like a bad penny – worst of all in something being based off of something. I may not get any change out of it, but a chance of making money off it would be more than enough for me.