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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by araneae »

Rod wrote: post #52
jeb wrote: post #4

I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.

Why the rush? It's not like you're gonna be impotent at age 40 or something. The pressure to "do or die" in one year only is likely to jeopardize your effort... unless you date single, childless 40 year old women. But what self-respecting man would do such a thing when there are so many younger, hotter women?

  carry my child
If they're a woman, they're a lesbian. I'm pretty sure men can't bear children.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by mrtron »

ronnier wrote: post #37
lionhearted wrote: post #2

I'm going to design my first article of clothing for myself next month. I'm going to Vietnam, and I'll do it in either Saigon, Hanoi, or Ho An. I'll be in the first two cities anyways, I might go to third just for its reputation as a tailor and fashion city. I've got a shirt I used to like a lot that's worn out, going to have a tailor use it as a model to make another. Going to get two shirts made. Depending on how t…

I visited Vietnam three times over a 3 year period. Is it your first time? Since my last visit, laws have changed that require you to wear a helmet while on a moped. One of the things I enjoyed the most was the freedom in riding a moped around a huge crowded city for hours, not knowing where I was going, or where I'd end up. It's somewhat ruined now with the helmet law. Nearly 100 degree weather wearing a helmet isn'…

As someone who is currently riding a moped in 100 degree weather in Asia right now - I really don't mind the helmet. You really don't notice it.

Hopping on a moped and heading anywhere, parking anywhere really is quite enjoyable. It is unfortunate north american cities are not well suited to it.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by weirdwonka »

jeb wrote: post #4

I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.

choose as much exotic race as possible with highest possible iq + looks

Such as if you are White I suggest a good looking Indian girl who is pursuing PhD in CS or some such

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by robryan »

felideon wrote: post #57
robryan wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You will probably want to start with CS concepts, given that from what I have seen NLP is a very algorithmic area of research, having some CS/math background will help you a lot to understand what has already been done and to build on it. Now I'm not sure the best way to go about this, either learn the abstract concepts which might not be the best way to start or pickup one of the more pure languages which in turn wi…

Thanks. I'm assuming Common Lisp is a suitable language? Not sure which ones you would consider pure , other than Scheme or Haskell.

Not pure as such, just something you can get the concepts from without to much language specific stuff or at to high a level. Don't think I'm the best person to suggest though having started with PHP in my teens, then only really had my mind opened up to proper CS when I got to uni.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by weirdwonka »

felideon wrote: post #12

To do research in natural language processing. Roadblocks: * Time. Or if time = money then I need money to be able to spend time on this. Also, in itself this wouldn't bring in much income I don't think. * No CS background. Don't know where to start.

Some good advice 1. use python + NLTK 2. read papers and posters from current conferecnce such as ACL or even WWW 3. start an incremental project and try at least getting a poster published in a tier-1 conference 4. If you have good grades + work ex go to CMU Advanced Lang. Tech Masters program
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