drakaal

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by drakaal 14y ago
The challenge with the website is saying things in such a way that we don't scare off the non-technical, and still appeal to the technical. All cards on the table, there is a lot of discussion internally about who we are writing for. The re
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People become editors at book companies not because they can write, but because they know how others should. I'm confident few of the Engineers for F1 racing are spectacular drivers. I know my PE teacher couldn't touch his toes.
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We handle polywords. We had to. Noun adjuncts being one of the worst in terms of how often they show up, and I'll be honest I don't even know what you call Gerunds as Adjectives like "Running shorts" but those are a pain too. But you can ki
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In a VC pitch you always include a small easy to fix, minor issue. One you know the answer to. That way they point it out, you tell them how smart they were for mentioning it, and then the solution. They feel like they proved you aren't per
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I fixed my misspelling of third... I think for us the biggest thing is that often we don't know what approach will work best until we try, and often we have to balance more than just readability or performance. Memory usage issues meant th
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We started 14 months ago. Papers and Patents take a bit longer than that to get through. We have two pending patents. Much of the "magic" is trade secret rather than patent because the changes in patent law are now requiring enough informat
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I can rephrase. Google releases their billions of NGrams. They did so because they knew that it would scare anyone from competing. Not because they thought it would help. They aren't that nice. Will I ever share? Possibly. But like Google i
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We do extractive summarization because we don't feel that changing the authors words is fair use. We could do rewriting. We actually have an in house demo that for lack of a better word build Wikipedia pages for animals. (animals have fixed
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We are working on getting it in to the Azure Data Market place with a free monthly tier of a certain number of API calls. Microsoft is being slow (more than 5 weeks). We are looking at Mashape but we have not heard good things about their u
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We have an app for that. http://www.tldrstuff.com The "short" 25% view is pretty good on this. The summary doesn't read as well because it picks up the ReadMe because I didn't mark it as code snippet because I'm sucky at WordPress editing
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Clothing, Textiles... We did recently learn that I missed furniture. Apparently a curio cabinet is not something that I was getting... but we get chest of drawers just fine, and writing desk. We even get all the weird dogs.
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by drakaal 14y ago
Install the TLDR plugin. Pick a web site. Or better yet go out to project gutenberg pick a book. Tom Sawyer. Push TLDR. Way faster than 200ms per sentence. Yes it does most Germanic and Romance languages. Yes it does domain independent name
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Here is a better and more succinct, and mostly up to date version of capabilities and technology. http://www.stremor.com/stremor.pdf
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You judge the technology based on the marketing? Summly had no tech and lots of marketing. SRI had no marketing and lots of tech. I'd rather be SRI than Summly. Take note as to which one got a Billion dollar valuation.
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I ran it through our stuff we do fine with segmentation of your comments. We still have trouble with certain poorly formatted numbers, or if you do something like for get a space after a sentence that ends in a number. "I'll take 2.In case
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To the ambiguity comment: Can is really annoying. Can is a verb. Can is a Noun. It is part of a Noun Adjunct. The rules to determine "The chicken soup can help when you are sick" and "The chicken soup can landed on my foot" and "We can pea
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To akavlie's Ram limit comment: We run on Google AppEngine. It gives us great scalability, but it limits us to about 512 Megs of ram. We made this choice because with a small team it gave us the most freedom to focus on the code, rather tha
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Parts of it maybe. But as a whole not likely. Much like SRI we are hoping that we will license the tech to companies. We could build full products, but we think that the way this can be best applied is as enhancements to other products. Sea
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You are right there are a select few. But it is very few. I linked to the quora as just one example. The challenge is that they focus on what is "right" not what is "common". It is like swum. It is a real word, and I have swum many times
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Did you restart Chrome after? It should work everywhere.
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We were mostly flying under the radar. But with two companies doing summarization being bought for $30M in the past month we are becoming less stealth. I know it sounds like a bold statement, but I believe it to be true. Doing things right
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Things I Learned Building The Most Powerful Language Processing Engine(xyhd.tv)
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I think Gorrila's was the ultimate Qbasic game. It was "Scorched Earth" before Scorched Earth was a game. I learned programming by turning Gorrila's in to a game with buildings that moved every turn, and changing the graphics.
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Great use case for big data, and a great story about how "shadow data", the data that is avaialbe only through manipulation of data can be extracted.
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Security: In order to exceed the heap limit which is quite small in node you have to override the soft limit. Doing so enables several over run attacks. Not doing so severely limits what you can do as large scale apps pretty routinely need
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In web languages threading is often not the win that people think it will be. True web scale is serving 1000s of requests per minute if not second. Each of those users is a "thread" in Python, Java, Etc. So enabling multiple threads per use
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by drakaal 14y ago
These are basically super mirrors. Have you ever tried cleaning the mirror in your bathroom to a spot free shine? Now imagine you had that outside, and you had to do it with bird poo, and dust, but you couldn't scratch the mirror, you could
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It's not just that you have to clean it. It is that if you don't you have a heater instead of an airconditioner. So if you have a rain followed by 110F you have a very bad day. And I can buy a lot of AC for $60 an hour that I would pay some
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It works well until it gets dust on it. They should read some of their own papers. The biggest challenge to reflection is that it only works when the surface is still reflective. If you lose 10% of reflection the system goes from cooler to
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I have never known Node.JS developers to be quiet. Quite the opposite. With a single thread, gaping security holes if you want large memory support, and until about 3 weeks ago nothing that even came close to resembling compliance with HTTP

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