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jweese

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    Comment #8795140

    Sadly, this monad can't stop you from doing dangerous stuff in the first place, like iterating over the output of ls: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

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    Comment #8591385

    School: Chicago; year: 1939; achievement: eliminated program. We do take it as a point of pride. We also had the first Heisman winner ever.

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    Comment #7623030

    That's why you want newtype Kilogram = Kilogram Double which has no runtime overhead but does enforce the fact the Kilogram is a distinct type.

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    Comment #7466095

    perl -pe ""

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    Comment #7036979

    Yup: http://meatfighter.com/superman3/part1/

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    Comment #6114280

    I didn't know either. Per "man ab": > ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

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    Comment #5980359

    st.nyc - Santa's homepage.

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    Comment #5874474

    I believe they just have a patent on these particular cDNA types, namely cDNA created from BRCA1 or BRCA2, and not on the well-known lab techniques for creating them.

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    Comment #5874448

    Justice Scalia's concurrence, reproduced here in full: "I join the judgment of the Court, and all of its opinion except Part I–A and some portions of the rest of the opinion going …

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    Comment #5819748

    > The channel is the analog to the Unix shell’s | character. This sentence was italicized, and rightfully so. I've written a few small Go programs, but I haven't run into a problem…

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    Comment #5751280

    What's yellow, normed, and complete? A bananach space!

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    Comment #5682079

    Yes. For example, consider interlingual machine translation. Most systems today (like Google) use statistical MT that learns patterns from millions of examples. In interlingua, by …

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    Comment #5681656

    Except in passive constructions, but maybe that's an easy case to detect.

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    Comment #5680129

    Nice writeup. A few comments: So you're just identifying NPs and VPs in a sentence? So lets say I run your program, and I get NPs "Instagram" and "Facebook", and the VP "acquired."…

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    Comment #5677132

    Everyone's talking about auth to limit spam, but I think a more interesting approach is to let people click to flag spam, then train up a little naive Bayes classifier.

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    Comment #5667575

    I'm not a lawyer, but I am from the US. The Judge's order includes the following footnote: "Even if their refusal was based on the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incriminat…

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    Comment #5628057

    > A browser plugin to enable/disable Now tracking seems like it could be handy, however. I've gotten into the habit of using incognito mode for most searches, and only staying logg…

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    Comment #5626561

    Things I use every day: weather; baseball and football scores for teams I like; approximate time to home and traffic conditions from wherever I am Things I use when the appropriate…

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    Comment #5607613

    My experience is the same. I work in NLP, and I've found that at least everything administered by ACL (probably our largest professional organization) is pretty much always availab…