December 2011
5 posts
Six years, and I still haven't found better... →
Code vs Theory: How the FlameWar was won.
A friend over at Theoretically Speaking writes,
thisaintnogame:
In the end, both of their final results probably suck (according to the right metrics), so I don’t believe either really chose their careers based on the end impact they will have on the world. They chose their careers based on how much they enjoy the journey of getting to their result. Code Monkey likes…
I’ve been thinking about...
300 love letters →
a beautiful project
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Extracting Collective Expectations About the...
“The future will soon be a thing of the past,” said comedian George Carlin, yet entire industries are built around the future and attempts to analyze (and even) predict it. The list of professions is extensive; from stock trading, currency speculation, and the futures markets, to military strategy, political election prognostication, and astrology (this may or may not be a sleight, your call), we...
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Coreference Resolution, Resolved (well, sort of)
Coreference resolution is fundamental to a proper interpretation of a piece of text. It is often cited as a necessary condition for building natural language understanding systems and for other difficult computational tasks such as information extraction and question answering. We say that two mentions of an “entity” in a piece of text corefer if they refer to the same object(s) in...
