drakaal

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by drakaal 13y ago
The big issue I see is that Twitter detects and delete gibberish as spam. So at best case your posts randomly get filtered when you use this. At worst case after posting a bunch of gibberish Twitter bans your account.
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by drakaal 13y ago
The Transformers evolved from naturally occurring gears. It says so in Issue 1 of the comic series.
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by drakaal 13y ago
No, PleaseAPI is converting Natural Language to Database like structures/commands with no need to have a human come up with every way you could say something because the vocabulary is built in. Unlike Wit it also offers the option to u
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by drakaal 13y ago
Sounds like they are trying to be this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-r4gpM3Rc Except Stremor has a Query Language so you don't have to do anywhere near as much heavy lifting.
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by drakaal 13y ago
"Duh" Microsoft has been moving all of their brands to "Xbox" Zune Music, games in the App Store. I think this is the bigger story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6337218 as it outlines what MSFT n
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by drakaal 13y ago
Microsoft isn't agile, and politics in the company won't make it as easy for a "Mayer" to come in and whip it in to order.
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Mircrosoft's Next CEO Needs To Be More Mayer And Less Ballmer(forbes.com)
8 points by drakaal 13y ago|4 comments
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by drakaal 13y ago
http://www.samuru.com is better for concise answers.
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by drakaal 13y ago
Or you could just drop stop words and gerunds. This is another post from "TheTokenizer" that over simplifies a complex problem and creates devistatingly bad results. The method described doesn't tell you what the sentence is about it tells
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by drakaal 13y ago
Spam is not the way to get on Yahoo's Radar. Nor the way to win friends in the HN community.
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by drakaal 14y ago
While we kind of all new that Summly wasn't the tech play, the purchase was for the SRI license, I think we thought the SRI License was more valuable. I am the CTO at Stremor. Gadget King did a good side by side. (Glad they did the work I d
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Tech Comparison: Was Summly The Best Choice For Yahoo?(gadgetking.com)
7 points by drakaal 14y ago|3 comments
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by drakaal 14y ago
The better question is if your clients care so much about privacy, is the risk that you shorten 3 sentences in such a way that "My client, Mr. Smith would only kill in self-defense. On the other hand Mr. Jones is a cold blooded killer. He h
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by drakaal 14y ago
Then you license it for onsite. The training corpus doesn't matter one bit. The type of document does. (Report, op-ed, News, thesis, Fiction, etc) We even do summary based on query. Summarize a 1000 page report only looking at things relate
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by drakaal 14y ago
Why not use a well tested, fast, off the shelf summary api? https://www.mashape.com/stremor/ We do all the hard work. Even do the Content extraction from the page. And yes I have ties to this product, I'm the CTO of Stremor. No. that does
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by drakaal 14y ago
A DNA Test doesn't work like that. Probability tests do, but not things we label "probability" that aren't. "there is a 25% chance of rain tomorrow" isn't really a 25%. It is a confidence score. Something people can grasp better than DNA:
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by drakaal 14y ago
I am guessing there is a user Hash Collision. Google uses hashes for a lot of things. Hash tables are very fast, and great for database look up. In Python if there is a hash collision both entries are compared and resolved by comparison. T
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by drakaal 14y ago
Hence forth Iceland will honor this day with a National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Unfortunately since the Pirate Party members are primarily computer geeks, talking like them doesn't involve nearly as many Argh, Matey, and Ahoy's as the gener
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by drakaal 14y ago
Docx is an open standard built on Open XML. It is not Propietary. There is no licesnse to build an editor that supports it, and it is well documented. The author contends that this is Proprietary. If they got this very obvious thing wrong a
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by drakaal 14y ago
RSC 1000 GBP contests are to encourage youth to develop science experiments. Did you think that amount was enough to finance a study? The 1000 GBP contests are all things for which RSC already has answers.
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by drakaal 14y ago
Warm water has less disolved gas, and provides less bouyancy so particulates that would lower the freezing point settle to the bottom. These two factors make the water freeze faster. This isn't "unexplained" unless you never took a college
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by drakaal 14y ago
Voxels make sense in some types of 3D printing. But for almost none of the reasons the Author described. The author makes a case that every 3D print manufacture has known since the day they started. Each "squirt" of print media is a volume
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by drakaal 14y ago
The way to eat cheap is to have 49 friends. Costs are much lower if you buy a lot of something. Soup kitchens as they are called in the US (and elsewhere?) do this. There are self sustaing ones in the US that charge $1 for a meal which is
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by drakaal 14y ago
Custom Search, Don't specify any rules which would interact with the results you are testing against. (like add a rule that favors a parked domain.) If they are buying those links then finding the bad ones is as easy as contacting the peopl
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by drakaal 14y ago
This is Spam. There are a few dozen of these with better economics on Amazon. And if you want to light a house on the cheap, the LED "ropes" are more efficient, and will last longer. Also a CFT would be 12W and cost $2 ($1.25 if you look a
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by drakaal 14y ago
Things like cookie inspection allow a data miner to get a list of known customers of a company. I can tell you every RackSpace Customer, Every Amazon Shopper, Every FaceBook User. If you have seen those ads on FB that are for something you
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by drakaal 14y ago
Why are you doing Bad Neighbor link checks if you make something like Adobe Reader? You don't have to scrape Google they have an API for Search that is about $10 per 1000 calls at volume. I have done this for BILLIONs of links.
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by drakaal 14y ago
Tax law is being updated to reflect the investment of Intelectual Property and time into intangible goods. While the article talks about songs and movies, this is a good move for software developers who put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears
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Lady Gaga Writing A New Song Is Like Investing In A Machine(npr.org)
1 points by drakaal 14y ago|1 comments
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by drakaal 14y ago
Your comment would be marked as spam using your logic. Was that intentional?

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