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by nxb 11y ago
Nice, and has a built-in parser and annotation system too. Very nice. See also: http://brat.nlplab.org/examples.html Any others like this?
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by nxb 11y ago
I've always liked the Elance / Freelancer escrow systems, in principal, and I use them when buying services. But those sites have way too much of a low-end feel for me to ask my own clients to pay me via those, for 5 or 6-figure j
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by nxb 11y ago
That forking behavior is exactly why I hate the idea of companies expecting people to use Github to showcase their side projects. And I really support the idea of side projects, preferably on something other than a default Github page thoug
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by nxb 11y ago
Shockingly, signature is often not actually required in the UK for changes to employment contracts. Sorry I can't find better sources at the moment, but this was recently ruled on again by the UK courts. No signature is required, simpl
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by nxb 11y ago
Is a new signature required from the worker, in order to make the newly added non-compete binding, or not? This part seems confusing from that summary. If the workers signed a new non-compete and then continued to work for the company, this
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by nxb 11y ago
I, personally, would love to hear more about the hundreds of lower tier accelerators, and insight as to why they're doing so terribly. In many of the cases I've seen, the people running the accelerators just lay 100% of the blame
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by nxb 11y ago
I made of these back in the first month that Omegle was launched. I think they started automatically detecting it and quarantining these types of bots pretty quickly, though. One solution I can see now, is to use something like word2vec, or
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by nxb 11y ago
The particular case I'm thinking of, is not a one-off type of service at all. It's a long-tail ecommerce shopping advice app that generates affiliate & advertising commissions that are much higher than the cost per user acquis
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by nxb 11y ago
To clarify, the problem is that most people are only talking about "organic retention" when they say "retention", and ignore any "paid retention". So in my example, I can get a very high percentage of people to
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by nxb 11y ago
You think it's rare? Consider where you actually spend most of your money online. Ecommerce, Uber, Airbnb, Fintech services, etc. Most of these you don't use every single day, as you would with Facebook or Google or a dating websi
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by nxb 11y ago
Here are my problems with retention being the star metric: What if you have a customer lifetime value far higher than your acquisition costs per customer, and a very wide addressable market, but low retention rates? E.g. I acquire users for
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by nxb 11y ago
- Burnout - Founder <-> founder resentment - Founder <-> investor resentment Those 3 causes are far above everything else, in cases I've seen. Even higher than running out of money.
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by nxb 11y ago
Next, try the taggers on a more realistic setting than the standard corpuses -- e.g. a product review that compares several products, and you'll instantly see how incredibly poor the current state of the art NER is. Technology is reall
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by nxb 11y ago
I can't begin to guess as to why you'd feel that way. Facebook runs one of the top machine learning research labs in the world. They're among the most clever in this domain, by every possible metric. They've written exte
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by nxb 11y ago
- Deducing based on my median friends' ages. - Easily deducing my approximate age from my Linkedin profile. - Any of the numerous other private people data sources they have access to or have bought over the years. I'm sure my bir
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by nxb 11y ago
Facebook does the same with birthdays. I input my age as 90 when creating my account. They changed it to my real birthday somehow. AND then they expose it publicly to anyone who looks up my profile, even when they aren't my friends. AN