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Perhaps we can bang a Snowball stemmer against it and get pretty good coverage on the whole language.

Btw, here's an example of somebody trying to do sentiment analysis on tweets: http://www.sentiment140.com/search?hl=en&query=romney .

What you're talking about in the last paragraph is sentiment analysis. This is really cool stuff, but it's tricky. Even if you have 2 humans do sentiment analysis independently, th…

Good ideas, all. There are a couple more debates. :-) In the meantime, if you want to play with filters, feel free to try this super-alpha toy I threw together the other day: https…

You're telling me. :-) We spent 2 years getting all those lists together and normalizing them. We're midway through a refresh now—new normalization framework, new matching algorith…

Twitter's actually the hardest nut to crack—pretty sparse user info available. Facebook and LinkedIn have a much higher hit rate, but they don't have such easy streams to grab.

And getting lower tomorrow. And then going up in efficacy, while maintaining confidence. There's a ton more we can do with this. :-)

Deferring the setup is first a matter of politeness, an artifact of my opinion that importing a module shouldn't have (possibly surprising) side effects on the environment. As for …

Oh, and for any who like the look of Blessings but don't have any terminal projects afoot, shoppers who looked at this item also viewed... A sequel to itertools: http://pypi.python…

So glad you're enjoying Blessings! I've had fun writing it. I'd love to hear what kind of projects other folks are doing with it. Any neat hacks? One of my fun little demos is this…

What people never seem to bring up is that C has just as many parenthesis; they're just not adjacent quite as often. (do something to these (and these)) vs. do(something, to, these…

Very nice! What deviations do you plan to make from Scheme? And the ever-fearful question: what about debugging?

Also, pushd and popd. And "cd -". And ctrl-Z and fg to jump out of your editor for a moment. And dragging dirs from the Finder (or whatever) to the terminal.