A tragicomic journey through newsgroups, natural language, and near-miss predictions “Natural language processing is the field of making machines feel as confused as you do.”— Anonymous, or possibly your classifier 🧭 Act I: Unearthing the Corpus Some datasets are majestic.Others are monstrous. And then there’s the 20 Newsgroups —a glorious fossil bed of 1990s internet … Continue reading Classify or Die Trying: Teaching Machines to Sort Human Nonsense