A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research
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#34They 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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#35Earlier 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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#38Do we really need more sample data sets
Yes. I can't really fathom the snark here. Is providing this a bad thing?
Providing actual free data would have been great though.
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#40Wow, 230GB celebrity photo dataset caught me off guard.