Show HN: Match HN Job Seekers With Those Who Are Hiring

https://github.com/josephecombs/HN-job-matcher

by jecjec • 12 years ago

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jecjec• 12 years ago

Hey everyone, I scored each "seeking work" post against each "hiring" ad. The scoring is based on the .similar method in the similar_text gem. If this is actually a meaningless method, please ignore this post :)

If you posted in the seeking work thread, you can look in the "spit" path for a ranked list of the jobs you ought to apply to!

EDIT: right now it looks like .similar doesn't actually work that well (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14136349/how-does-similar...) so I am looking for a better solution. I have switched to the amatch gem (https://github.com/makaroni4/amatch) and am re-running the comparison. Now I am using levenshtein distance but that still seems bad from what I am reading.

howard941• 12 years ago

I suppose you've noticed it returns high scores for spurious replies to hiring ads, or at least it did for me. Nevertheless I adore the idea. Hang in there!

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