-    df = tfidf.select('subreddit','subreddit_id_new').distinct().toPandas()
-    spark.stop()
-    df['subreddit_id_new'] = df['subreddit_id_new'] - 1
-    df = df.sort_values('subreddit_id_new').reset_index(drop=True)
-    df = df.set_index('subreddit_id_new')
-
-    similarities = sim_entries.join(df, on='i')
-    similarities = similarities.rename(columns={'subreddit':"subreddit_i"})
-    similarities = similarities.join(df, on='j')
-    similarities = similarities.rename(columns={'subreddit':"subreddit_j"})
-
-    similarities.to_feather(output_feather)
-    similarities.to_csv(output_csv)
-    return similarities
+# outfile = '/gscratch/comdata/users/nathante/test_similarities_500.feather'; min_df = None; included_subreddits=None; similarity_threshold=0;
+# def term_cosine_similarities(outfile, min_df = None, included_subreddits=None, similarity_threshold=0, topN=500, exclude_phrases=True):
+#     '''
+#     Compute similarities between subreddits based on tfi-idf vectors of comment texts 
+    
+#     included_subreddits : string
+#         Text file containing a list of subreddits to include (one per line) if included_subreddits is None then do the top 500 subreddits
+
+#     similarity_threshold : double (default = 0)
+#         set > 0 for large numbers of subreddits to get an approximate solution using the DIMSUM algorithm
+# https://stanford.edu/~rezab/papers/dimsum.pdf. If similarity_threshold=0 we get an exact solution using an O(N^2) algorithm.
+
+#     min_df : int (default = 0.1 * (number of included_subreddits)
+#          exclude terms that appear in fewer than this number of documents.
+
+#     outfile: string
+#          where to output csv and feather outputs
+# '''
+
+#     print(outfile)
+#     print(exclude_phrases)
+
+#     tfidf = spark.read.parquet('/gscratch/comdata/users/nathante/subreddit_tfidf.parquet')
+
+#     if included_subreddits is None:
+#         included_subreddits = list(islice(open("/gscratch/comdata/users/nathante/cdsc-reddit/top_25000_subs_by_comments.txt"),topN))
+#         included_subreddits = {s.strip('\n') for s in included_subreddits}
+
+#     else:
+#         included_subreddits = set(open(included_subreddits))
+
+#     if exclude_phrases == True:
+#         tfidf = tfidf.filter(~f.col(term).contains("_"))
+
+#     sim_dist, tfidf = cosine_similarities(tfidf, 'term', min_df, included_subreddits, similarity_threshold)
+
+#     p = Path(outfile)
+
+#     output_feather =  Path(str(p).replace("".join(p.suffixes), ".feather"))
+#     output_csv =  Path(str(p).replace("".join(p.suffixes), ".csv"))
+#     output_parquet =  Path(str(p).replace("".join(p.suffixes), ".parquet"))
+
+#     sim_dist.entries.toDF().write.parquet(str(output_parquet),mode='overwrite',compression='snappy')
+    
+#     #instead of toLocalMatrix() why not read as entries and put strait into numpy
+#     sim_entries = pd.read_parquet(output_parquet)
+
+#     df = tfidf.select('subreddit','subreddit_id_new').distinct().toPandas()
+#     spark.stop()
+#     df['subreddit_id_new'] = df['subreddit_id_new'] - 1
+#     df = df.sort_values('subreddit_id_new').reset_index(drop=True)
+#     df = df.set_index('subreddit_id_new')
+
+#     similarities = sim_entries.join(df, on='i')
+#     similarities = similarities.rename(columns={'subreddit':"subreddit_i"})
+#     similarities = similarities.join(df, on='j')
+#     similarities = similarities.rename(columns={'subreddit':"subreddit_j"})
+
+#     similarities.to_feather(output_feather)
+#     similarities.to_csv(output_csv)
+#     return similarities