Month: April 2007

HOW TO: Coding a Statistical Spellcheck

HOW TO: Coding a Statistical Spellcheck

Have you ever been curious about how some applications, such as MS Word or Google, can return spelling suggestions so quickly and accurately? Chances are, they are using a fairly straightforward probabilistic model, trained on a sample dictionary of common words and phrases, to determine when a word has been misspelled and to suggest the […]

AppleTV Perl plugin

AppleTV Perl plugin

Erica has a special treat for Perl folks with Apple TVs! On Sunday, with a hundred better things to do but no incentive to do them, I put together an Apple TV plug-in that allows you to run any Perl script you place into a folder in your home directory. (/Users/frontrow/perlbin). The idea is this: […]