erikrose

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Have an open-source, terminal-based Halloween.(gist.github.com)
1 points by erikrose 13y ago|0 comments
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by erikrose 14y ago
Perhaps we can bang a Snowball stemmer against it and get pretty good coverage on the whole language.
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by erikrose 14y ago
Btw, here's an example of somebody trying to do sentiment analysis on tweets: http://www.sentiment140.com/search?hl=en&query=romney .
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by erikrose 14y ago
What you're talking about in the last paragraph is sentiment analysis. This is really cool stuff, but it's tricky. Even if you have 2 humans do sentiment analysis independently, they agree with each other only 70% of the time. Computers ten
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by erikrose 14y ago
Good ideas, all. There are a couple more debates. :-) In the meantime, if you want to play with filters, feel free to try this super-alpha toy I threw together the other day: https://www.votizen.com/twitter-fight/ . It works on a rolling 2
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by erikrose 14y ago
You're telling me. :-) We spent 2 years getting all those lists together and normalizing them. We're midway through a refresh now—new normalization framework, new matching algorithms, etc., etc.
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by erikrose 14y ago
Twitter's actually the hardest nut to crack—pretty sparse user info available. Facebook and LinkedIn have a much higher hit rate, but they don't have such easy streams to grab.
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by erikrose 14y ago
And getting lower tomorrow. And then going up in efficacy, while maintaining confidence. There's a ton more we can do with this. :-)
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by erikrose 14y ago
Deferring the setup is first a matter of politeness, an artifact of my opinion that importing a module shouldn't have (possibly surprising) side effects on the environment. As for hanging everything off the Terminal instance, the motivation
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by erikrose 14y ago
Oh, and for any who like the look of Blessings but don't have any terminal projects afoot, shoppers who looked at this item also viewed... A sequel to itertools: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/more-itertools/ (The upcoming 2.1 will include a
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by erikrose 14y ago
So glad you're enjoying Blessings! I've had fun writing it. I'd love to hear what kind of projects other folks are doing with it. Any neat hacks? One of my fun little demos is this terminal-dwelling Game of Life: http://pypi.python.org/pyp
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Parsing Horrible Things with Python [video](pyvideo.org)
2 points by erikrose 15y ago|0 comments
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by erikrose 15y ago
What people never seem to bring up is that C has just as many parenthesis; they're just not adjacent quite as often. (do something to these (and these)) vs. do(something, to, these, and(these)) In any case, you really do things with whitesp
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by erikrose 15y ago
Very nice! What deviations do you plan to make from Scheme? And the ever-fearful question: what about debugging?
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by erikrose 16y ago
Also, pushd and popd. And "cd -". And ctrl-Z and fg to jump out of your editor for a moment. And dragging dirs from the Finder (or whatever) to the terminal.