The Inscrutable 8-Ball Revealed
The first step to figuring out how to make a custom 8-Ball; after a conversation with Amy.
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8-Ball Modification
Making Your Own Magic 8-Ball…
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Midtown Farmers’ Market
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Hackety Hack: the Coder’s Starter Kit
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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design [Design Principles]
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Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
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15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will | The A.V. Club
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
Computer language
specific
well-defined
Natural language
ambiguous
context sensitive
John saw the man in the park with the telescope.
Who has the telescope?
Processing natural language
stemming
breaking apart sentences
tokenizer
Named Entity Detection
recognizing chunks in text
person
date
money
Mr Jones went shopping on 31st May. He spent $3.15.
You will probably never be able to expect 100% accuracy in NLP.
Problem areas include companies named after people
Robert Half, Inc.
Thompson West
Katie and Ava are going to be doing the MS Walk on May 6th, and they’re looking for some people to sponsor them. I know that there aren’t all that many people reading this, but if anyone would like to help them out in beating their goal of raising $125, I know that they’d appreciate […]
By Garrick Van Buren
I hit the back button and lost all my notes. That’ll teach me to try to do this in the browser.
Smart Defaults - when a user asks for something, see if it makes sense for 80% of users. Most of the people who speak up are edge cases, in the other 20%.
What […]
By Ben Edwards and Ross Niemi - 1100-1150
Slides are online.
Agile can be a hard sell, and it’s our fault because we’ve always wanted to get all the specs upfront from clients.
Benefits are Clear
Agile methods reduce project costs
Agile methods get projects to market faster
Agile methods create higher quality software
Communication, Responsiveness, Transparency, Growth
Keeps people on the same […]
by Robert Fischer - 1000-1050
The Pragmatic Programmer - if you are repeating tasks, automate them.
How can we translate customer specs and requirements to documentation?
FIT - Framework for integrated testing
Story Test - Based on Unit Test idea
Customer produces expectations and communicates them to a developer
Hopefully it is documented for future reference - if it’s not documented […]