January 2011
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Jan 17th
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“/usr/share/dict/web2”
– A file with 234,936 English words, from Webster’s Second International dictionary (1934).
Jan 16th
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Even when the bank loses, it wins
I was initially surprised to see an increase in bank accounts that have zero fees. An example includes the National Bank’s Freedom Account. The account will waive all fees, so long as $2,500/m is deposited into it. You could put this down to competition or the reduced cost of business in an Internet-era. However, I don’t think it’s either of those. Perfect competition produce...
Jan 14th
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WatchWatch
Wow - data can be stunning! Thanks @gephi #gephi
Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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Extracting names with 6 lines of Python code
One of the tasks in natural language processing is identifying things like organisations, people and locations from text. In computational linguistics, this is known as “Named Entity Recognition”. Like most natural language processing, it’s a task that seems easy at first but quickly becomes really difficult. Here is a recipe that provides pretty good results in six lines of...
Jan 7th
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Hot tip for YouTube
You can provide a link to specific seconds. Add a #t=[num]s suffix to the url: Here’s a demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keXW_5-llD0#t=2586s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keXW_5-llD0
Jan 7th
Jan 6th
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“Newsflash: You’ll be vegetarian in 20 years- meat will be too expensive”
Jan 4th
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Why JavaScript will rule the world
This article discusses a few reasons why JavaScript will become the programming language for everything. The main driver discussed is the move towards cloud computing. Depending on one’s perspective, users are either first or second class citizens as a result of this movement towards JavaScript. I’ll try to cover a few arguments and then come to some conclusions near the end. Reason...
Jan 2nd
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