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sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: Stanford Natural Language Parser

Funny, but jokes aside, I found the NLP to be quite impressive / accurate.

I put the following phrase

> I nut on my girlfriends face.

and the parser correctly tagged 'nut' as a VBP (i.e. Verb, non­-3rd Person Singular resent) i.e. that 'nut' in this context is a verb, and not a noun.

Here's what the tagging returned (all words with tags)

I/PRP nut/VBP on/IN my/PRP$ girlfriends/JJ face/NN ./.

Tag Descriptions: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1833718/325521

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz

> I've been warning friends and family about this for years.

How did it work out? I tried the same too, but it was falling into deaf years. Most common response. "Sean beta (means son in hindi). You are being excessively paranoid. Facebook is a closed community, and I only share info with friends and family, so don't worry."

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz

> If Mr. Zuckerberg takes seriously his oft-stated commitments to diversity and openness, he must grapple honestly with the fact that Facebook is no longer just a social network. It’s an advertising medium that’s now dangerously easy to weaponize.

The story is chilling. It more or less proves that Trump campaign and the Billionaire Republican donor who owns the Data Analytics site used Facebook to profile people and send targeted "fear" stories to them and swing the vote away from Clinton.

Fear is a great motivator.

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: About 700 Microsoft employees will be laid off next week, sources say

> irresponsible conjecture.

More like mis-informed assertion on your part. The filing employer is REQUIRED BY LAW to prove that they couldn't find an equally qualified person in USA.. They are required to post a job listing and vet applicants. The H1B abusers like Microsoft, Infosys skirt around this by putting an ad in an obsure local newspaper that no-one is going to read. And even if someone applies the Hiring Manager finds some grounds to reject the applicant without legally getting into a pickle ("ex: candidate failed verbal tech interview etc).

See: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62M...

and

https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupati...

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: API Harmony Hits the Next Major Version

> APIful is a blog dedicated to topics in web APIs and API based web services. Join us on moving the internet forward with APIs!

Not trolling, but seriously wondering what APIful.io's value proposition is. Home page is confusing and after stumbling around a bit, it looks like they crawl API usage on github and stackoverflow questions on those API.

How would a full-stack engineer like me use the site, and for what purpose / value? Also, their about page list over 10 people. How is the site monetized??

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse

> I'm not saying vaping is safe. But I'm saying that it's obvious that it's safer than cigarettes.

Agreed. Saying something is 'safer' than something else, doesn't make the original thing 'Safe'. Vaping causes Cancer, so does Tobacco smoking. All of you are saying "Vaping is Safer because it isn't AS BAD AS smoking Tobacco". Agreed. But another way of saying is "We think Vaping is Safer because it causes Cancer in 20 years, whereas Tobacco smoking is will cause Cancer in 10 years"

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

> Every year there's a study that contradicts the last one.

That's from Astroturfing by <_INSERT_INDUSTRY_LOBBY_NAME_HERE_>

Every time a real study with facts comes out saying X_____ is bad for you, the Corporations and Special Interest Lobbyists working on behalf of X____ will astroturf the media with "No really, X____ is good for you"

X_____ = Coffee, Diary, Wine, Eggs, Wheat, Soy, Stevia, ..... you get the idea.

Required Viewing: Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDx => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse

> Nicotine replacement products aren't associated with cancer risk

This is what's really wrong, and absolutely harmful information to spread.

Your source for all these claims you are making about Vaping being "Safe"?

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: Caching at Reddit

> It took 8.4 seconds to load the Reddit front page on my phone. Hacker News took 1.1 seconds.

How could you compare the 2? The former has images and rich media. The latter is all text, like a unix terminal. LOL

sean_patel | 9 years ago | on: Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse

> Smoking is going out of fashion pretty fast in USA too.

Source?

Yes, Smoking traditional tobacco is going out of fashion pretty much around the world. It's been replaced by the increasing popular E-Cigarrettes / "Vaping", which is also Tobacco and poses the same health risks as traditional tobacco.

Especially very prevalent among-st Teenagers and young people. Heavily marketed by Big Tobacco as "Safe".

Sources:

1) CDC: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2011–2015: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6514a1.htm?s_cid=mm...

1) England: Smoking rate continues to decrease while vaping gains in popularity http://www.vapingpost.com/2016/09/22/england-smoking-rate-co...

2) The good news is that cigarettes are out these days. The bad news is that tobacco is still in. http://www.teenvogue.com/story/vaping-tobacco-popularity

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