Tai Xiang's Random Projects

The past three weeks of this process have been spent mostly working with some foundational natural language processing and sentiment analysis related bits and pieces. A couple of modules and libraries I’ve become a little more familiarized with hold extremely powerful features, while a couple others I have tried are a little more clunky and…

Within the previous post, much of the mentioned content was aligned with business and industry. The maximization of profit, the tailoring away of human error in understanding consumer wants and needs: Sentiment analysis as a means to enhance profit margins and taper away personnel. However, this tool need not remain rooted within capitalism and the…

We’ve reached a point in our technological continuum in which coffee makers are connected to WiFi, fridges have apps, and hairbrushes are Bluetooth connectable. With these tremendous innovations in how we utilize technology, it would be unnatural for massive companies and large-scale corporations to rely on bothersome surveys and questionnaires to aggregate user perceptions on…

The paintings on the back of an illustrated man, the sweet dreams of replaceable nobodies high on soma, the torturous reformations of a violent society: Science fiction has always been my favorite genre to read. It pieces together speculative visions with political commentary; builds worlds of surveillance and mystery. I feel the themes and messages…