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Hopefully this will settle down soon - currently seems to be overrun by trolls. I think only allowing registered nicks would be a very good idea.
by udp 14y ago
Hopefully this will settle down soon - currently seems to be overrun by trolls.
I think only allowing registered nicks would be a very good idea.
- dysoco 14y agoNah, it's just sarcastic humor.
- andrewcooke 14y agoyeah, i thought "NLTK is lame" was hilarious. it's that kind of biting, subversive sarcasm that we need more of. maybe it could be made into a light night show. cult following - attract the thought leaders with a wry edge. that kind of thing.
- bravura 14y agoI wrote NLTK is lame. I don't think I used that exact language, I think I just said I don't think it's useful. I have been doing NLP for a decade and don't see the use in NLTK. Most NLP practitioners with whom I have spoken seem to agree.
- andrewcooke 14y agooh come on. the person you were chatting to (working hard to raise the level of conversation) even called you (or whoever used the expression) out on it, asking why it was "lame" (their quotes, in the reply).
- bravura 14y agoI don't have the chat history handy, but I replied to the effect of: "If I need a POS tagger, I will get a specialized POS tagger." Someone else chimed in and criticized NLTK (noting that it seemed rudimentary). Then discussion moved on, and I don't think I was asked any followup questions. I don't think the pace was any different than other IRC channels, where sometimes people get bored of an interesting topic quickly, before it's really been explored. I'm happy to discuss my criticisms of NLTK. I'll be giving a talk at PyData in NYC in about two weeks and I'll be discussing my choices in more depth.