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by bravura 13y ago
Not very well. Twitter sentiment is a difficult problem. Consider using millions of training examples (vs. thousands). This was done as part of the "distant supervision" Twitter sentiment technique. What this means is that tweets with posit
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by bravura 13y ago
Is this only for US television? Or is it global? What is the reach? I know several people who would be interested in this for smaller countries. I couldn't find this information on the homepage.
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by bravura 13y ago
The Stanford parser is particularly slow --- it's in java, and it's written for research more than anything. The choice of language is not what causes the slowness of the Stanford parser. It's the choice of search strategy, which trades-o
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by bravura 14y ago
Related hack: When you can't make progress and choose between two comparable options, Dan Ariely (behavioral economist) recommends you flip a coin. As you flip it, the impact of a potential decision might prompt you to realize the outcome y
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by bravura 14y ago
Is burning a story still effective? HuffPo will run a story from a mid-tier news org (AFAIK), and then it will go viral. So it seems this might be a deprecated crisis PR strategy.
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by bravura 14y ago
There is also Learning JavaScript Design Patterns . It's an O'Reilly book, and it's under creative commons, but it's not on that list. You can find it here: http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/bo...
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by bravura 14y ago
Some comments on data analysis: "How the Startup Index Ranking System Works: This index is built on a weighted points system which considers the following factors: website traffic, social media following, social media engagement, employee c
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by bravura 14y ago
I need it to be dead simple for people to join the chat, using existing chat clients. i.e. whatever they have installed, I can't ask them to install something new. What I mean is this: A lot of people I want to invite into chat, it's an exp
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by bravura 14y ago
If you are sick of co-founder dating and looking for that perfect match, are ready for something serious, why not consider: eCofounderHarmony.com (I just made that up. But perhaps the "eHarmony" approach to cofounder matches makes more sens
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by bravura 14y ago
Not exactly related, but nonetheless interesting: A blog post by Doc Faustroll (@faustroll on Twitter) on the strain of being evil, including reference to Dick Fuld of Lehman "Fuld at least had something of the physiognomy of the raptor, of
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by bravura 14y ago
I appreciate your distinction. This in fact is one of the red-flags he suggests: "[Be leery if] the API offers no (or very little) prospect for being monetized in the future"
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by bravura 14y ago
Alexa provides one piece of data that is semi-meaningful: That's my point. This measure is semi-meaningful. How meaningful is it? Very? Somewhat? Well, we don't know. The way you determine how meaningful it is, is by connecting the dots w
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by bravura 14y ago
Let me say first of all that I have great respect for the way you have engaged with criticism on this post and on your previous ones. Even when I disagree with your approach or whatever, I appreciate your curiosity and eagerness to learn. S
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by bravura 14y ago
This work lacks grounding because the measure of interest, Alexa rank , is not situated in measures that are familiar. The author, dmor, is not familiar with the semantics of the Alexa rank. Nor are most readers. We know loosely that low r
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by bravura 14y ago
"Rather a broad generalization, don't you think?" In fact, it was gratuitously restrictive , as you noted in the subsequent sentence.
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by bravura 14y ago
Can you discuss how you address the "schema-on-read" problem? One of the downsides of the cheap bit-bucket approach of tech like NoSQL and Hadoop is that it's easy to get the data in, but harder to get it out. The producer of the data has l
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by bravura 14y ago
Suggestion: Could you include an 's' magnet? Magnet sets never have them, but they are useful for turning a verb from the plural form into the singular ("downvote"), and vice-versa for nouns.
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by bravura 14y ago
You are correct that this does smell. I'm also dubious that this fellow will be able to scale up production without people replicating this at home. Related: I'm sure most of us don't care upon the soylent formulation per se as long as we
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by bravura 14y ago
I think this was a far better summary of the opposition to Google Glass: http://gawker.com/5990395/if-you-wear-googles-new-glasses-yo... "If You Wear Google’s New Glasses You Are An Asshole"
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by bravura 14y ago
For a funnier and lighter response to Graham Hill, I highly recommend this piece from bike snob: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-walls-kept... "Sure, life can be a bit easier if you trim the proverbial fat now and again,
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by bravura 14y ago
@bradfordcross: Since you've been asking what you can do to make Prismatic better... I want a weekly heads-up on all important news items in a particular domain. So I can make sure I'm staying on top of it. I like to browse Prismatic daily
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by bravura 14y ago
Hosting your blog on blog.startup.com is also broken, because you derive no SEO benefit from it. It's more likely that you drive traffic from SEO than from Tumblr 'reblogs'. Hence, you shouldn't even use tumblr for your main corporate blog.
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by bravura 14y ago
I'll give it another shot.
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by bravura 14y ago
SUMMARY: Rover considered harmful. Its transit routes are always delayed for me. I've been using Rover side-by-side with Routesy Pro and NextBus and Google Maps. Rover has a great interface, and maps from current location to destination. Aw
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by bravura 14y ago
Random question: Demo day for summer YC is towards the end of August. I've heard anecdotally that many investors travel during August, and that it is a poor time to fundraise. But I've also heard that many investors come to Demo Day. Is the
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by bravura 14y ago
legal confidentiality means... IANAL, but I don't believe you have attorney-client privilege until you formally hire the lawyer. So if you are calling ten lawyers and getting advice, there is no guarantee of privilege.
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by bravura 14y ago
On Amazon, there is a free Kindle version of Meditations. Here is the URL that worked for me: http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-ebook/dp/B0082XJGRK/ref=sr...
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by bravura 14y ago
Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins is unveiling the first phones built on the BlackBerry 10 operating system this morning in New York. The new software is designed to let users multitask more effectively than on rival devices, includin
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by bravura 14y ago
What is the correct way to instrument SCALABLE website analytics if you have a massively-trafficked (almost facebook-size) website? Are there any resources on this topics?
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by bravura 14y ago
Marketing != advertising Marketing, for a startup, means finding a repeatable sales model.

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