iM.Sam Jp
Inquiring Within to Understand With-out! Not so random musings on life and tech by Sam.JP. Apparently, they both are not so far apart :-)
A Travel Search Engine (sort of)
Here’s a project I did for my information retrieval class. The code isn’t quite open source/I haven’t been maintaining it since I’ve jumped ship to Rails. If I get some time, I will patch it up and have it as a turn-key app for App Engine.
Of course, since then, I’ve had some more insights into better search techniques and algorithms. If I have to do it all over again, I’d have done it with Hadoop and Mr. Job (well, this was recently open sourced from Yelp!). And of course, this time around, I’d use Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx and use Amazon Map Reduce.
Regardless, here’s a writeup of what went right and what didn’t:
