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by vivekn 11y ago
The problem with doing that is you keep reinventing the wheel. Use deep learning if that fits the problem, but keep learning about other things like how EM works, variational inference, graphical models etc on the side. One day you might fi
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by vivekn 12y ago
Well MOOCs may not appeal to everyone but they are extremely useful to anyone who wants to learn about certain advanced topics on their own. It will not disrupt college education, since its not the courses or content that matters but the cr
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by vivekn 12y ago
What if you don't set the "Server" header?
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Efficient spelling correction using BK Trees in Scala(vivekn.com)
2 points by vivekn 13y ago|0 comments
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An open source sentiment analysis tool with an API(sentiment.vivekn.com)
1 points by vivekn 13y ago|0 comments
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by vivekn 13y ago
Hmm, they should have handled negations, its not that hard to implement.
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by vivekn 13y ago
The model was trained on an English data set, but if you train the same model on some other data, it can handle other languages as well.
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by vivekn 13y ago
While 95% accuracy would be a really phenomenal achievement, an accuracy in the range of 85-90% is achievable using methods simpler than deep neural nets. I have done some work on sentiment analysis in the past. I used a Naive Bayes model w
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by vivekn 13y ago
Will be interesting to play around with that dataset.
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by vivekn 13y ago
Thwarted expectations and sarcasm are difficult to handle. You are down to the choice of optimizing for this particular case or the majority of text.
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The Trouble with SVMs(v1v3kn.tumblr.com)
8 points by vivekn 13y ago|1 comments
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by vivekn 14y ago
Nassim Taleb's "Antifragile", Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov", Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power" were some of the good books I read this year.
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Roll your own autocomplete solution in a few lines using Tries.(v1v3kn.tumblr.com)
1 points by vivekn 15y ago|0 comments
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by vivekn 15y ago
I use wombat too, its easy on the eyes and a very aesthetically pleasing color scheme.
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Flicksurf - Personalized recommendations for movies, music and books(flicksurf.com)
1 points by vivekn 15y ago|0 comments
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Validators.js - A minimal html form validation library(v1v3kn.tumblr.com)
1 points by vivekn 15y ago|0 comments
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A python ORM for Redis (v1v3kn.tumblr.com)
1 points by vivekn 15y ago|0 comments
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by vivekn 15y ago
I was kind of impressed with dotcloud beta, its really simple to mix and match databases and deploy them. But I guess I can't afford $100/mo for hosting my kind of experimental apps. I was expecting a usage based pricing scheme similar to A
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Create social networks with Redis and Python easily(github.com)
3 points by vivekn 15y ago|0 comments
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by vivekn 16y ago
Thanks for your views. As of now the 'details' are geolocation details. By clicking on a point on the map, the address and place info, if available would be added to the status update, that would be shared with the user's FB friends on his
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Ask HN: Review our location based app - mapTheGraph
2 points by vivekn 16y ago|2 comments
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by vivekn 16y ago
I am an EE student but with a lot of interest in CS . I personally am no big fan of C,despite the fact that most of the courses are in C . It is kind of cool when working on compilers or embedded systems but for anything else I would any da