16:30:51 From Dan Liyanage : Why can’t you compute the p(w)? 16:35:38 From Prasanth Shyamsundar : Is the latent class variable beta discrete, or can it be continuous too? 16:36:39 From Prasanth Shyamsundar : Ignore this question 16:54:49 From Prasanth Shyamsundar : Is beta a class label denoting topics, or a continuous variable denoting the weight of a given topic? 17:01:31 From Dimitri Bourilkov : Can you please show again the while...do slide. 17:02:59 From Tom Junk : What determines the dimensionality of nu? In clustering applications, there is almost always a cluster-size parameter which steers the desired granularity. What keeps the method from creating a different topic class for each paper? 17:05:57 From Prasanth Shyamsundar : The learned posterior distribution of latent variables in the LDA analysis is different from posteriors in a Bayesian sense (where more data makes the posteriors tighter), right?