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The plural is "corpora".

Sorry, don't understand your last sentence.

It seems to contradict the paragraph before -- ML as a service seems a terrible idea for the reasons you just listed (among others). What's "Hella Neat" about that?

Didn't work on me.

I didn't understand what the "visual effect" is supposed to be until I read the description.

I still see animated 2D GIFs with bars over them (=no real difference if the bars were removed).

I got HN upvote nr. 1337!

That means my petition signature will hold a special weight.

Pardon me prying, but what exactly is your experience?

I'm only asking because I've seen "in my experience" sermons delivered by fresh-out-of-college kids one too many times, and have become wary of the phrase.

People who never tried, imagine creating a new product (not to say a "disruptive" product) is a simple A-B-C process:

* talk to potential customers

* do it!

* PROFIT

Whereas unless you are an expert yourself in the domain you're entering, it's almost hopeless.

People/businesses don't know what they want, until it's presented to them on a golden platter and all of their colleagues/competitors are already braying about it.

Only a question of time before the Machine Learning wave arrived at the arguably least suited--but certainly the most popular--platform!

There's money to be made with this combination. The field is ripe.

Good write up too.

Gentlemen, gentlemen.

ElasticSearch sits on top of MASSIVE investment money (closed series B). Your worries about developers needing a "second job" are not substantiated. This is not an evening hobby project of a starving developer.

And there's the rub: investors want their money back.

The pace and aggression with which ES pushes its products and services must only increase from now on. Better get used to it.

"Her" may captivate non-techies and romantic liberal arts majors. But "HUMAN AI AROUND THE CORNER!" must leave anyone who knows anything about AI smiling benevolently.

The guy in the article who says we're basically there sounds like a loon.

Kudos to Norvig for skipping this rubbish.

Why do you assume working on his project doesn't bring him happiness?

Also, though I'm sure you are well-meaning, advising strangers how they ought to live their life makes you sound like a prick.

OP basically says people in Europe look at you weird for starting a business. Failing the business afterward is a social tragedy.

It's about social/peer pressure.

Having lived in many countries across Europe, I can attest. Some countries are worse than others of course (the worst being the ex-commie/socialist ones).

"Terrible at geography" is not binary state; it may well be true that Americans (on average) are worse than most others, while having absolutely brilliant scholars.

High standard deviation.

Plus I believe the real stereotype of Americans is being ignorant of geopolitical issues, dumb bigoted nationalists. Nobody really cares whether you draw some obscure peninsula correctly or not.

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Judging by the amount of fawning here, this guy must be a HN celebrity. Interesting post nevertheless!

I can only hope, one day, I'd be writing and publishing joyful little hacks like this, to such general applause, instead of eking out a living. I have to say I'm a bit envious here!

Well done to the dude. An inspirational post, in many ways.

Lost me at "big data problems".

What impacts industry 10 years later is more a measure of marketing and brand association than academic excellence.

Google could fart now and the internet will still cry roses.

The same research/algorithms/software produced by an independent individual or lab would simply die in obscurity.

Wrong, the authors do have a choice.

Many choices, in fact. Including & not limited to: raising awareness of Elsevier's reprehensible practices, writing blogs, commenting on online forums. Lobbying various institutions. Not signing an explicit contract with Elsevier? Definitely a choice.

"Society made me do it" is always a pathetic excuse.

TLDR: Primarily looks for a good market. Without a market, fund only if founder top 0.01% (whatever that is).

An insightful, actionable blog post. A true gem in the HN treasury.

Not bad as an introductory text, but the code could use some love. Disappointing when it says "programmer's" in the title.

Ever heard of PEP8 for Python coding style? List comprehensions?

I'm afraid this falls in no man's land, with code too weak for practitioners and theory too weak for theoreticians.

"You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing. for example. or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, 'Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.' There's no difference on paper between the two."

--Frank Herbert (author of Dune)