Fast Elixir Porter2 Stemmer

Patrick Tschorn wrote “Motivation: understand the Porter2 stemming algorithm and learn some Elixir On a recent project, my mission was to refine and substantially extend a prototype document classification system originally written by somebody else in Python. In order to keep the extended system small and understandable (i.e. maintainable by the original author), I implemented all but one of…”

Programming a word at a time

Irene Papakonstantinou wrote “There is an improv game called one-word-at-a-time. It goes like this: two (or more) people collaboratively compose a story, each adding just one word at a time. It sounds easy, but actually humans can be pretty bad at this game! Some of the rules of improv are “be obvious” and “accept offers”. In the context…”