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"I was hoping for skynet. This is just a killer robot. You can put a machine gun on a lawnmower and get this far." (I'm kidding, obviously. This is not new tec
by timr 9y ago
"I was hoping for skynet. This is just a killer robot. You can put a machine gun on a lawnmower and get this far."
(I'm kidding, obviously. This is not new tech, but having a cloud API for it does make life easier for a lot of tasks.)
- killjoywashere 9y agoI suspect the folks tasked with building skynet would actually love the funding it requires to get a machine gun and a lawnmower in the same fiscal year.
- Xeoncross 9y agoNot quite, I mean it's literally just three lines of code to get entities: > doc = nlp(u'Apple is looking at buying U.K. startup for $1 billion') > for ent in doc.ents: > print ent.text https://spacy.io/usage/spacy-101 https://spacy.io/usage/spacy-101 They even have an awesome visualizer you can run locally: https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy/ https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy/
- timr 9y agoYes, lots of open-source tools exist, like NLTK. Now, put it in production at non-trivial scale.