textminer

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1. 151.▲
   by textminer 14y ago

   Please, please, please spend a day abstracting out commonly written functions to one place. Your quickly-written prototype code should not be slowed down by the 100th slightly different implementation of a text tokenizer or kNN classifier.
2. 152.▲
   by textminer 14y ago

   Spent a summer in Paris. Still chastened by a Monoprix cashier not being able to take my card for whatever reason, and a woman in line behind me telling me it's "not like America." Also enjoyed the spectacle of tobacconists not knowing to s
3. 153.▲
   by textminer 14y ago

   How does a computer distinguish an irrational number from a good, (necessarily rational) floating-point approximation of one?
4. 154.▲
   by textminer 14y ago

   Funny you say that. Finding a job recently, Palantir was the absolute worst at the recruiting process. At the end of their two months, in one two-week span I interviewed at and received offers from two much smaller startups. I told my recru