…until no more were available. This often resulted in large corpuses of thousands of comments. I used Python for the comment downloader, because of the easy availability of Google API client libraries, and switched to Ruby to process the corpus. (If you know anything about AI, you know that's crazy, but hey, I did it, and it worked.)
You might imagine that Bayesian networks would be the next place to take this large corpus. You would be imagining wrong. We tried that and it was an …
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This release contains the source code to Microsoft.Scripting.AspNet.dll , located in the src directory, licensed under the Apache License ( Version 2) . It will be available in the source repository for IronPython in the very near future, but don't hesitate to start sending in patches . This release is compatible with IronPython 2.7 Alpha…
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Gibson will play a fanatical animal-rights activist who frees illegally imported exotic snakes from pet stores, sending them into the Everglades, where they grow to mega sizes. Tiffany will play an overzealous park ranger who uses dangerous methods to save endangered alligators.
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You'll care about your tools and will take real, genuine pride in the quality of the code you create. Learning new programming languages and getting more out of the languages you already know will excite you. Efficiency will be important too, and you'll be looking for ways to automate your workflow and push the repetition off to a script. …
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