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• How To Build a Naive Bayes Classifier

  Some use-cases for building a classifier:
  
  Spam detection, for example you could build your own Askimet API;
  Automatic assignment of categories to a set of items;
  Automatic detection of the primary language (e.g. Google Translate);
  Sentiment analysis, which in simple terms refers to discovering if an opinion is about love or hate about a certain topic;

  tags: programming

• Adventures (in code) - Alastair Coote • I had no idea how to make custom maps, so I learnt by doing. You should too.

  Lately, I’ve been making an app called Taxonomy (that desperately needs your votes …sorry). It’s designed to make your taxi experience better- a traveling companion, if you will. Going by the logic that a lot of people (in New York, at least) only really travel in taxis when out at night, I decided that it ought to have a dark colour scheme.

  tags: programming

• WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS WITH KATHY ACKER – A Filmed Interview | THE END OF BEING

  Legendary transgressive novelists Kathy Acker and William S. Burroughs sit down and chat at the October Gallery, London. Burroughs’ shotgun paintings, the cut-up method, and novels are all subject for conversation, as well as dispelling a few rumors. This was Burroughs’ first exhibition in the UK. This ICA Guardian Conversation video is split into 3 portions, totaling at 33 minutes.
  
  Kathy Acker interviews William S. Burroughs 1 of 3:
  
  
  
  
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• Judge Napolitano.How to get fired from Fox Business in under 5 mins - YouTube

  How to get fired from Fox Business in under 5 mins (youtube.com)
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  tags: news

• The Misunderstood Power of Michael Jackson's Music - Joseph Vogel - Entertainment - The Atlantic

  More than two and a half years after his untimely death, Michael Jackson continues to entertain. Cirque du Soleil's crowd-pleasing Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour is currently crisscrossing North America, while a recent Jackson-themed episode of Glee earned the show a 16 percent jump in ratings and its highest music sales of the season. Even Madonna's halftime Super Bowl spectacle harkened back to a trend first initiated by Jackson.

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• The Big Mud Puddle: Why Concatenative Programming Matters

  There doesn’t seem to be a good tutorial out there for concatenative programming, so I figured I’d write one, inspired by the classic “Why Functional Programming Matters” by John Hughes. With any luck it will get more people interested in the topic, and give me a URL to hand people when they ask what the heck I’m so excited about.

  tags: programming

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