mostlycarbon

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by mostlycarbon 15y ago
There are two quotes that I remember from my CS profs that have stuck with me over the years. AI prof addressing statistical vs. rule-based learning: "All models are wrong. Some models are useful." Systems level programming prof: "Now that
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by mostlycarbon 15y ago
I remember this happening 5 years ago, but instead of a bunch of salesmen frantically searching for businesses to pitch couponing to, it was mortgage brokers pitching exotic loans to home buyers. I'll go out on a limb and guess that most of
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by mostlycarbon 15y ago
Relevant article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375715,00.asp Dvorak argues that Facebook is AOL. I disagree, and think it's inferior to AOL. Mainly because Facebook neither provides an entry into the internet (like AOL's ISP did
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by mostlycarbon 15y ago
Spammers increase conversions and activity on the site. I worked for a dating site and they condoned spammers that weren't out of control. Hell, they tacitly approved of hookers working the site as long as they weren't blatant. If you're
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by mostlycarbon 15y ago
I wish I could publish it, but my company isn't very much into open source. It's a standard context free grammar framework modified to generate output in a stochastic manner. So it's basically a stochastic context free grammar (SCFG). I
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by mostlycarbon 15y ago
That sounds possible, but gathering all the data for topic-specific training might be somewhat maddening. The problem you get with larger groupings of words is lack of cohesion. If you trained it at a sentence level, you might be able to
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by mostlycarbon 15y ago
Given Rocky's claim that investing a large amount up front for a traditional advert placement is equivalent to receiving a short-term loan from Groupon for running a deal on the site, then Groupon is merely like all other direct marketing/d