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by raffi 17y ago
And this my friends is why government research is awesome. DARPA and crackpot scientists--coming to a future near you.
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by raffi 17y ago
I have to second this. I do not have an eye for design and I know this. It's just my weakness. Having a good designer on board is an absolute must. If you want a suggestion, try http://www.monfx.com/ | http://www.mdolon.com/ -- he i
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There are plenty of PhDs in a uniform and they do just fine. I've worked with a few of them.
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Great! We're on the same page now, different sides of experience. It's unfortunate that we were ingrained with that "don't talk to strangers" mentality--I understand the reason for it, but it does hurt us as adults. The surprise thing is n
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by raffi 17y ago
"The social consensus tells people that if someone talks to them in that situation out of the blue they are either mad or bad!" This is what some would call "a limiting belief" and I used to feel this way. Every interaction is between the
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by raffi 17y ago
Talking to strangers and making it work is a GREAT social confidence builder. Doing it enough is a good way to learn what works and doesn't as well. I didn't read much of the original post but what he's doing is a GOOD thing. As for the a
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by raffi 17y ago
I was in a similar situations sans French lessons. My girlfriend wanted more than I was able to give. Eventually I decided to break things off, since she wasn't happy and we had a different life paths--it seemed the respectful thing to do
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by raffi 17y ago
aherm consider referring these folks to Uncle Raffi's spelling, style, grammar, and misused word detection for bloggers-- http://www.afterthedeadline.com I'm here to help!
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by raffi 17y ago
Many distributions don't install this by default, but nano is there. I find it an acceptable pico clone.
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I've felt like you have many times. Whenever I do, I go read this blog post from Timothy Ferris: http://tinyurl.com/4l2gpl It contains this gem of a quote from Marc Andreessen: “First and foremost, a start-up puts you on an emotional rol
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by raffi 17y ago
That will probably be a really good book. I read Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran and took a lot from it.
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That is what I ended up doing. Except this is raw data. Usually NLP researchers work from corpora that are already segmented into sentences and tagged with part-of-speech tags. I had to go through the hassle of segmenting and marking up
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by raffi 17y ago
As the comments (on the google page) illustrate, this corpus is close to useless unless you're a university researcher. Commercial use of this data costs big $$$. And if you're an independent you still have to pay $150 or so to get LDC to
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by raffi 17y ago
If we're going to yackety yack about spell checkers, After the Deadline is really accurate because it looks at context and uses trained neural networks to sort recommendations. Hunspell does sophisticated stuff but as Norvig said (somewhe
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by raffi 17y ago
I like this post only because I can relate. When I launched my most recent project I had a pretty poor response rate even though I emailed a lot of folks individually. Fortunately I made a list of who I contacted and now I'm going to emai
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by raffi 17y ago
I'm on a 12" Powerbook running Firefox 3.0.11 at 1024x768. I'm unable to scroll down on your page. I think it's because of the persistent footer you have. The remaining portion appears to be within the space of that footer and so my brow
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There is more to the story but I tried to stick to the main point I was making. In the future I'll cover what happened to PolishMyWriting. It's a problem I am passionate about. Eventually PMY found an audience and I used their feedback t
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by raffi 17y ago
You're dead on. One day I'll write about how I kept hitting my head against the wall, figured it out, and made $$$ then I'll write an innovators guide to selling. You'll know about it because I'll be that good by then. I'm not there yet.
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How to find new startup ideas? The answer is in the question.(killall.dashnine.org)
40 points by raffi 17y ago|10 comments
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by raffi 17y ago
I've thought of adding goto to Sleep. Have you ever looked at the code in the Linux kernel? It's full of gotos. They use goto's to make sure functions have one exit point and to cleanly deal with errors in one spot.
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by raffi 17y ago
I wasn't trying to beat you up, I just saw it as an opportunity to talk about myself which apparently is something I like doing. Does this make me a bad person? Yes. Ok, two minutes have passed and I just returned from your website. I re
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by raffi 17y ago
I know someone else with a similar story to yours. One of the brightest security folks I know and no degree. Yet he is still involved in very important projects and no one would ever question his contribution.
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by raffi 17y ago
Yes. According to http://www.polishmywriting.com (which is mine): Try: "A Unified" A and an are indefinite articles. An indefinite article is an adjective that says you want any of some noun. For example "I want a pony" means I want any
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by raffi 17y ago
My comment is off-topic but related. Different people have different learning senses. Visual, audio, and kinesthetic among them. I'm a kinesthetic learner and the act of writing something helps me internalize it in a way the other modes
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by raffi 17y ago
The Plain English community is big on these rules and they're at the heart of the style checker I built for After the Deadline. I flag passive voice (4), complex words (2), cliches (1), redundant expressions (3), some jargon phrases (5), an
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by raffi 17y ago
This statement seems unfair. I'll back up my claims: 1. I help you find errors in your writing. Despite the limitations of spellcheck and misused word detection they are still a valuable safety net to have. 2. The style checker is useful
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AtD biases heavily against false positives. If it's too noisy, using it is more work than it's worth. I only flag a missing hyphen if P(WordB|WordA) > P(WordA-WordB).
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by raffi 17y ago
This paragraph is from a NY Times article. Can you find the error in it? Still Mr. Franken said the whole experience had been disconcerting. “It’s a weird thing: people are always asking me and Franni, ‘Are you okay?’ ” he said, referring
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by raffi 17y ago
Thanks. I'll clarify this on the site. I arrived at the numbers using data I collected about the behavior of my beta users over the past 90 days. One of my users is a blog with eight writers on staff and they do nine requests/day. If th
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I want to help you write better...(afterthedeadline.com)
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