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Thought I'd share what I've been working on for some time. Would love feedback! It uses Deep learning models for natural language. Happy to answer tech related questions here. Just a note: It's limited to San Francisco only for now - and it's still in Alpha - there will be kinks!

For NLP, what API/lib are you guys using?

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Nice app !! This looks promising as people were raising concerns how much the magics or operators of the world can scale relying on humans to answer your queries. I'm interested to know more about tech involved in building this. You said it uses Deep Learning for NLP, but can you elaborate as what type of neural networks you have used like Recursive or Recurrent Neural networks or any other open source technologies that you find useful. I also liked your approach of scaling gradually by restricting the scope of queries that myra can answer.

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Thought I'd share what I've been working on for some time. Would love feedback! It uses Deep learning models for natural language. Happy to answer tech related questions here. Just a note: It's limited to San Francisco only for now - and it's still in Alpha - there will be kinks!

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).

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PS, 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 relate to NLP/Deep Learning, and doing so with millisecond response times, at scale - you know what to do :)

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#46

I can't for the life of me figure out how to text that number with FB Messenger... am I missing something?

Sadly, Facebook's interface is badly done. Here's how.

(1) Go to the "People" tab [1]

(2) Click the "+" Icon on the top right [2]

(3) Add the phone number you want to message. [3]

[Reference Images]

[1] https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t39.2229...

[2] https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9...

[3] https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9...

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Does 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 speaking to a person - and one of the things that most (all?) other AI assistants out there lack.

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#49

Nice app !! This looks promising as people were raising concerns how much the magics or operators of the world can scale relying on humans to answer your queries. I'm interested to know more about tech involved in building this. You said it uses Deep Learning for NLP, but can you elaborate as what type of neural networks you have used like Recursive or Recurrent Neural networks or any other open source technologies t…

Thank you for the feedback. Yes - I think of it as the 80/20 use case - humans are great for the long tail, but there is no good reason not to automate the top 80% of the use cases first.

The tech is evolving. Recurrent NNs, word embeddings. Standard python libraries mostly. Nvidia CUDA backend for speed.

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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PS, 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…

One such experiment at

http://crrnt.is:8080/?q=natural+language+processing

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