February 2009
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Kindle 2: Reference Library
I want a Kindle 2, but I want it for all the “wrong” reasons.
I have no interest in reading fiction on it. I imagine that (and the $359 price tag) is what keeps most people from buying it. I like reading actual books, and they happen to be very well designed for their purpose as it is. I also typically borrow books, or buy them used, at a significant discount. This re-use...
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Sentiment Accuracy vs. Sentiment Accuracy
** Posted as a comment to this post at lexalytics **
Great post, we’ve also found it pretty easy to build a system that gets 70-80% accuracy in almost no time at all.
Sentiment accuracy is also interesting and measuring it becomes all the more difficult when you consider it as a spectrum rather than simple agree/disagree.
For example, when dealing with financial sentiment measurements as we do,...
LoveRX
I saw this article in the paper this morning, which made me wonder just how soon we’ll start seeing love pills. If they have found the centers of the brain and are narrowing down the chemistry, it can’t be very long. Here are my proposals:
Accumbenz: When the marriage counselor thinks it shouldn’t be saved. (Nucleus accumbens)
PallidumRX: Why tell your boyfriend to...
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