From the example, I have to wonder, how quickly does that go through tinyurl links?
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#52From the example, I have to wonder, how quickly does that go through tinyurl links?
Agreed - I haven't had time to build my own url shortener yet :) Hopefully not too quickly.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
For NLP, what API/lib are you guys using?
The language and entity recognition are using custom stuff that isn't part of any standard libs. For instance, in a query like "whats a good happy hour place in the mission?" - nothing is capitalized and all of the standard libs out there can't deal with it. For building blocks - it's a combination - mixture of word2vec for feature vectors, and some parts of spaCy (though still experimental).
I'm unsure of what you mean by stating that none of the standard libs include what you need. Could you expand on this point?
Using your example, why couldn't you use a standard parts of speech tagger, even on a poorly-punctuated sentence?
Also could you expand on the NLP techniques you are actually using? How are you embedding the words/phrases/sentences into the vector space? Are you doing compositional embedding (unsure of the proper phrasing) where you embed a word, the phrase the word is in, the sentence the word is, etc all in the same vector space?
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#54Does anybody remember I Want Sandy? That was the first product of this type that really worked well for me.
Absolutely - I tried it! I think the ability to interact with a service in a manner reserved for other humans makes it a more intimate (and arguably natural) experience. The main motivation behind Myra is that it maintains conversational context - so you can ask questions and follow up with it without leaving that context. Eg: "Find me a restaurant" and "Show me what people say about it". Just like you would when spe…
Interesting point and I think that's where the strength of Deep Learning based chatbot automation lies as compared to more traditional approach of using regex and heuristics to build chatbot like AIML or Bruce Wilcox's Rose.
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#55Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text
#56Are we heading in the direction of WeChat where we have a single app as a platform?[1][2][3][4]
[1] https://medium.com/@mg/there-s-a-chat-for-that-apple-s-bigge...
[2] http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/8/1/app-unbundling-s...
[3] http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/
[4] http://vurb.com
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#57Are we heading in the direction of WeChat where we have a single app as a platform?[1][2][3][4] [1] https://medium.com/@mg/there-s-a-chat-for-that-apple-s-bigge... [2] http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/8/1/app-unbundling-s... [3] http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/ [4] http://vurb.com
You mean like email? Email is still used for just about everything: "instant" messaging, to-do lists, appointments, letters, bills, etc.
SMS could do most of that as well, and if you add an "AI" messager it could be pretty powerful. That said, an "AI" email interface would be just as useful.
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#58PS, it's interesting that CS224d : Deep Learning for NLP is trending at the same time as Myra. A lot of stuff is common to both - for instance, the topic on Recurrent neural nets for word embedding. There are a bunch of very nice NL related experiments I've tried that are waiting in ipython notebooks, that we would love to experiment with here in production. If anyone here is interested in working on problems that re…
Have you seen luka.ai they have been doing it for quite a while. Doing something very similar.
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#59Are we heading in the direction of WeChat where we have a single app as a platform?[1][2][3][4] [1] https://medium.com/@mg/there-s-a-chat-for-that-apple-s-bigge... [2] http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/8/1/app-unbundling-s... [3] http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/ [4] http://vurb.com
I think of messaging apps as analogues to a browser, and those who offer services through them as analogues to a website.
Ultimately, any one browser can't store _all_ the links in the world that you might need to use. You need something like a search engine.
So no, I fundamentally disagree with A16Z and the wechat model - just because it worked on limited scale (think Yahoo directory in 1999) - doesn't mean its the way to the future. My $0.02 anyway :).
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#60PS, it's interesting that CS224d : Deep Learning for NLP is trending at the same time as Myra. A lot of stuff is common to both - for instance, the topic on Recurrent neural nets for word embedding. There are a bunch of very nice NL related experiments I've tried that are waiting in ipython notebooks, that we would love to experiment with here in production. If anyone here is interested in working on problems that re…
Have you seen luka.ai they have been doing it for quite a while. Doing something very similar.
Ours is a completely autonomous program crawling internet and applying text algorithms.