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“Natural Language Processing with Python”... has lots of motivating examples for natural language processing, focused on NLTK, which among other things, does a nice job of collecting NLP datasets and algorithms into one library. Let’s take one of Shakespeare’s sonnets and see if we can recommend alternate rhymes. Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
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Regex Crossword is a game similar to sudoku or the traditional crossword puzzle, where you must guess the correct letters in the horizontal and vertical lines of a grid. In Regex Crossword you are not given a word to guess, but a pattern that tells you which letters are allowed. Puzzle[dr].
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You sir are sick, just sick i tell ya.
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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When maintaining applications built in ways that make unit testing them high friction, difficult or down right impossible, we often turn to integration tests or no tests at all. Poking around the outside of your logic to see that the outcomes our code produces is often fiddly, brittle and in most cases so time consuming it just doesn’t happen. Lucky for us all, if there has been a case in the past where we’ve been unable to test part of our business logic, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 is here to offer an answer to your prayers... That legacy code you're in charge of updating? VS just made it easier to test.
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Except they didn't, doesn't work as described for VS2012 Update 3 - the doc referred to a CTP of Update 2, I guess the marketing chaps objected.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Here’s what’s holding back 3D printing, the technology that’s supposed to revolutionize manufacturing and countless other industries: patents. In February 2014, key patents that currently prevent competition in the market for the most advanced and functional 3D printers will expire... These patents cover a technology known as “laser sintering,” the lowest-cost 3D printing technology. Because of its high resolution in all three dimensions, laser sintering can produce goods that can be sold as finished products. sudo print me a sandwich.
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It will also, apparently, explode if you try to make a 3D gun.
I was seriously considering flooding the web with defective designs for guns for 3D printers, that'll thin out the gun nuts 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: I was seriously considering flooding the web with defective designs for guns for 3D printers, that'll thin out the gun nuts
I suspect your purge will end up being limited mostly to kidiots and gangbangers. Real gun nuts will notice problems like a tissue thin layer of material in the firing chamber, or that parts not fitting together right will go kaboom. Real gun nuts will stick to well known trusted sources for part blueprints just like they do for reloading manuals (books listing what gun powders, and what amounts of them, are safe to use when reloading brass for a specific gun).
Edit: even there, you're unlikely to go beyond shorts, shrapnel injuries, or mangled hands. Screwing up a reload by putting a double charge of power will make most guns go boom; but serious injuries are uncommon because the explosions just aren't big enough.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sometimes you just want to get away from it all—to escape the din of a busy office, or the roar of a plane, and enjoy your favorite album or podcast. Or maybe you just want the world around you to be a little quieter so you can concentrate or relax. Noise-canceling headphones aim to provide just such an aural refuge. I took a look at five models marketed as premium noise-canceling solutions to see if they live up to their hype (and price tags). Sorry, you'll have to speak a little louder Bert. I have a banana in my ear!
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In short, Orion is a set of components that together provide the server and client side code that make up an extensible browser based development platform. The components differ from many other Eclipse projects primarily because they’re written in JavaScript, CSS, HTML5 and target modern browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE10. This is the initial target for Orion, web developers. A worthy goal: Bringing all the fun of Eclipse to "simplify" the web development toolset.
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GAH!!!
NO!
NO!
NO!
There's only one Orion project and only ever will be one. This is not ol' boom boom.[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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London-based security researcher Ibrahim Balic has come forward, claiming he may be the one behind Apple's recent security threat. Following Apple's statement to developers earlier regarding a security threat to the developer portal, Balic posted a comment on TechCrunch's report of the story trying to set the record straight that no harm was ever intended. In the post, Balic explains that he uncovered 13 bugs while researching Apple's security, and reported them all through Apple's bug reporting site. The long-awaited evidence that Apple doesn't ignore Radar posts entirely.
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My principal memory from that period was a meeting in which I, as the resident 3D expert on the DirectX team, was asked to choose a handedness for the Direct3D API. I chose a left handed coordinate system, in part out of personal preference. I remember it now only because it was an arbitrary choice that caused no end of grief for years afterwards as all other graphics authoring tools adopted the right handed coordinate system standard to OpenGL. Alex St. John renders his POV from the early days of DirectX and Direct3D.
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Like many of you, I spend the majority of my day on a desktop PC. My PC happens to have two 30" displays, neither of which is touch, and a Logitech Touch Pad that has some basic gesture recognition.... In the course of regular usage, I've found a bunch of desktop features which make huge difference in the usability of Windows 8.1, but which aren't talked about a lot. So here are the little things that matter. This isn't a rah-rah post, just things that *I* personally found useful as a long-time user of Windows (since Windows 3.0, in case anyone is counting). What are your favorite Windows 8.1 features?
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Quote: What are your favorite Windows 8.1 features?
That it's one step closer to Microsoft realizing to bring Windows 7 back as Windows 9 Classic 
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A while ago, I was thinking about which programming language I wanted to learn next. At first I was doubting between Scala, Ruby or perhaps Clojure. But I couldn’t really make up my mind. So I decided to pick up Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. This way I was able to take a small bite from a couple different cakes in order to decide which flavor I liked the most. This one's too hard... This one's too dynamic... But this one's just right!
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After reading the Edge article on the Making of Berzerk, you’ll learn from Mr. McNeil that the game went through 2 earlier phases before acquiring Mazes. "I figured I’d need barriers between the robots and the human. So I started looking at maze generators, and devised a super-simple scheme...." How Alan McNeil created the randomized mazes for the arcade classic, Berzerk.
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Scientists often talk about creating artificial intelligence, but how "intelligent" are these systems really? Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago came up with an answer after giving one of the top artificial intelligence (AI) systems an IQ test. The system, ConceptNet 4, was built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was determined to be about as smart as the average 4-year-old. Its invisible friend says "Nya nya nya you don't compute either."
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Apple’s developer site was accessed by “an intruder” last Thursday, the company has disclosed, and Apple has not ruled out the possibility that developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses were compromised.... Before it reopens the developer site, Apple is “completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database,” the email said. Amazingly, someone cared enough about WebObjects to find a vulnerability.
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An otherwise healthy earnings statement from Microsoft was overshadowed by a substantial $900 million charge attributed to "Surface RT inventory adjustments." The ARM-powered tablet, Microsoft's first foray into selling computers, recently had its price cut by $150 to $349 amid long-standing reports of poor sales. With this $900 million charge, those poor sales and price cuts are hitting Microsoft's bottom line. Other than that, it wasn't such a bad quarter.
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The Microsoft surprise... has infused the discussions of the company’s future, what Ballmer will do with his new organization now that the Redmond Giant (finally!) seems to be aware that it’s playing catch up in a Post-PC era. As luck would have it, I got a draft of Ballmer’s memo to a small group of Microsoft execs. I can’t vouch for its authenticity — it was “regifted” through a series of contacts, friends and foes of old OS wars — but I hope you’ll find it interesting. Windows Mobile 9 and Office everywhere - stroke of genius or the kiss of death?
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Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there’s still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM card. Yet after three years of research, German cryptographer Karsten Nohl claims to have finally found encryption and software flaws that could affect millions of SIM cards, and open up another route on mobile phones for surveillance and fraud. But wait! There's a second, bonus bug if you act now...
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The NSA has admitted that the organization's use of Microsoft SharePoint allowed an unnamed sysadmin to leak information. In what can be perceived as either a ringing endorsement of SharePoint's "collaborative power", or a depressing admission that, yes, spooks use the same infuriating software as we do, NSA chief General Keith Alexander indicated recent leaks came from a sysadmin being given SharePoint privileges. New for SharePoint 2014: One-Click Backdoor Workflows.
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Back in June of last year, Microsoft started teasing a "major announcement" that would soon be revealed as its first tablet: the Surface RT. There was an air of excitement, and the expectation that Microsoft might be able to tackle the iPad head-on with a slim and lightweight device that took advantage of a keyboard accessory. Fast-forward 12 months, and Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablet by 30 percent worldwide because it's simply not selling. Where we don't hear about missed expectations: Microsoft's enterprise and dev products. Just sayin'.
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