NEW: SimHash Distributed Scalar Encoder (SHaDSE) - DEPRECATED

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I forgot to mention: With this SimHash Scalar encoder, if you set bucketRadius=0, it can also act like a category encoder.

And, I created a separate Document encoder with this same SimHash method. More here:

Also: SimHash Document Encoder

Hi all, I took my new SimHash Scalar Encoder, and was able to easily make a Document Encoder version (link below). Similar documents will receive similar sparse encodings, and un-similar documents will have more unrelated outputs. Similarity is defined as binary distance between strings, there is no kind of linguistic semantic understanding. You’ll want http://cortical.io for that. How it works: Take a document, split up the words, and hash each. You can optionally add weights to the word…