Topic Explorer

Noblogs Topic Explorer

This application shows an overview of the major topics being discussed all over noblogs.org, in the last few weeks.

The analysis process is automated and unsupervised. As such, results are only approximate, and occasionally can even be wildly inaccurate. If you disagree with how something has been categorized, you are probably correct.

This is the first result of our exploration of modern Machine Learning technologies from the perspective of developing useful tools for our communities. We think it is valuable to provide such examples as a counter-point to the current discourse around ML, centered around fear so as to discourage understanding, when instead greater understanding of these technologies is necessary in order for the people abusing them to be held accountable.

Technical details

The data is analyzed with a combination of ML and traditional numerical techniques, using BERTopic with Llama2 for summarization.

The analysis runs on public posts only, and in any case the data never leaves our control. The ML pipeline runs on our own hardware and does not rely on third-party services.

Technical Information

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