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A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Do we really need more sample data sets

Yes. I can't really fathom the snark here. Is providing this a bad thing?

I think the commenter above you missed that it's not "sample data", but curated datasets for machine learning tasks, which we most certainly need more of.

Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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They don't make it easy to find out what the Microsoft Research License Agreement is, when they put it behind a login wall on a site that doesn't work with ad-block. But this appears to be a copy of it: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~aditya/langid/msrla.txt These license terms are a trap. Nobody should ever accept them. You can't use the data for commercial purposes, which is harsh enough on its own -- it means the data…

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Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We're all in on open source." [1] Thanks for taking the effort to check. :) I believe this kind of attitude from MS is pretty problematic for Github. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-...

While I find it awful that this particular department of Microsoft is offering "free data" with poisonous terms, I see no reason to believe it has anything to do with GitHub. Microsoft is a big place.

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Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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post #26

Do we really need more sample data sets

Yes. I can't really fathom the snark here. Is providing this a bad thing?

Well. In this case it happens to be a bad thing, because you have to agree to a poisonous NDA to download this data.

Providing actual free data would have been great though.

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