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Thanks! The hints can be toggled on or off with F3 (the feature is introduced later but the toggle works from the very first exercise). I defaulted to showing them so that complete…

Okay so normally I hate people that bring up gender, but there were some interesting correlations between professions and gender here. Assuming there aren't many guys named Sue. Fo…

Ya I checked out your root project, will give it a whirl when you open it up. I'm moderately interested in adding voice commands to an app I'm working on and haven't found a servic…

This is a pretty good explanation of why almost all practical applications of NLP are now accomplished by statistics rather than fancy linguistic grammar models you might have read…

There are two people talking in my head while I read this post. One says : Too many people obsess about backends. Yes, build your startup in C# and a .NET stack if that's what your…

Hey thanks for this man. Yes Korsakoff's is something I've worried about, and the symptoms are terrifying. However, the cause of Korsakoff's syndrome is a vitamin deficiency, and i…

Yup, the login wall is a major PITA. Enforcing that for people who simply want to read the content is a mistake IMO. However, Quora made the decision that it would force enough sig…

Quora is the only one of these that interests me primarily because most answers are posted by people using their actual names. Yeah it's not perfect and it has a lot of issues, but…

I like this a lot. Let's be honest, there's not a lot of services built that are geared towards a small customer demographic of limited means. Which is what this service is geared …

I drink way too much. I've accepted this. What stops me from drinking way too much? Not much, because I'm able to rationalize my drinking with the many beneficial effects touted. T…

I like it, quite useful to be able to quickly preview the themes without having to wade through the description pages. One thing that would make it much better (at least for me) wo…

This is interesting, but I don't see how it is news. Our brains can take gibberish and impart meaning to it if we are looking for it (as our brains are primed to in the example in …

If you have enough written content that you've placed online, the US government can identify you anyway. A person's writing style and specific use of function words is their handwr…