What Nelson Elhage thinks about documentation

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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1. 3 Jul 2024

   Our readingDocument similarity scores across a corpus tend to cluster bimodally near identical and near unrelated, rather than spreading evenly.

   Their wordsI suspect - but haven't verified - that in many corpora, we will encounter fairly bimodal Jaccard values - two clusters, near 1 and 0.

   ↗Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHashblog.nelhage.com