{
  "id": 20150,
  "title": "All negative numbers?",
  "url": "/competitions/expedia-hotel-recommendations/discussion/20150",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-04-15T19:23:06.777Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 1045,
  "content": "<p>I wonder, what is the deal with all negative numbers in the destinations table? Not that it matters much for anything, just curious. \nIs it a log of some kind of likelihood? I guess we won't be getting the meaning of the columns ;)</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "115024",
      "postDate": "04/15/2016 19:23:06",
      "content": "<p>I wonder, what is the deal with all negative numbers in the destinations table? Not that it matters much for anything, just curious. \nIs it a log of some kind of likelihood? I guess we won't be getting the meaning of the columns ;)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I wonder, what is the deal with all negative numbers in the destinations table? Not that it matters much for anything, just curious. \r\nIs it a log of some kind of likelihood? I guess we won't be getting the meaning of the columns ;)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "115025",
      "postDate": "04/15/2016 19:37:01",
      "content": "<p>Yup, 10**x sums up to 1 for each row.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yup, 10**x sums up to 1 for each row.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "115107",
      "postDate": "04/16/2016 10:25:06",
      "content": "<p>Does anyone have an idea on what does latent description mean?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Does anyone have an idea on what does latent description mean?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "115108",
      "postDate": "04/16/2016 10:31:22",
      "content": "<p>Just a guess, but I imagine they did something like latent semantic indexing on the reviews to extract the most salient concepts from the reviews.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Just a guess, but I imagine they did something like latent semantic indexing on the reviews to extract the most salient concepts from the reviews.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "115124",
      "postDate": "04/16/2016 14:18:14",
      "content": "<p>We don't want to release details but basically search destinations with hotels with similar user reviews should have similar latent space.</p>\n\n<p>Adam</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "We don't want to release details but basically search destinations with hotels with similar user reviews should have similar latent space.\r\n\r\nAdam",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 115025,
      "author_name": "jasontam",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/15/2016 19:37:01",
      "content": "<p>Yup, 10**x sums up to 1 for each row.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 115107,
      "author_name": "surbhigoyal",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/16/2016 10:25:06",
      "content": "<p>Does anyone have an idea on what does latent description mean?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 115108,
      "author_name": "goodman0",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/16/2016 10:31:22",
      "content": "<p>Just a guess, but I imagine they did something like latent semantic indexing on the reviews to extract the most salient concepts from the reviews.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 115124,
      "author_name": "adamwoz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/16/2016 14:18:14",
      "content": "<p>We don't want to release details but basically search destinations with hotels with similar user reviews should have similar latent space.</p>\n\n<p>Adam</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "115024": "I wonder, what is the deal with all negative numbers in the destinations table? Not that it matters much for anything, just curious. \r\nIs it a log of some kind of likelihood? I guess we won't be getting the meaning of the columns ;)",
    "115025": "Yup, 10**x sums up to 1 for each row.",
    "115107": "Does anyone have an idea on what does latent description mean?",
    "115108": "Just a guess, but I imagine they did something like latent semantic indexing on the reviews to extract the most salient concepts from the reviews.",
    "115124": "We don't want to release details but basically search destinations with hotels with similar user reviews should have similar latent space.\r\n\r\nAdam"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}