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Google today announced the public beta launch of its Cloud Natural Language API, a new service that gives developers access to Google-powered sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and syntax analysis. Well, verb my subject object
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Cool. That'll give some competition to the services I've written about here. The pricing is amazing as well.
Though I do have a question.
Given:
Price per 1,000 units, by monthly usage.
And then, in the columns (we'll take the first one):
0 - 5K units/month
OK, so can I interpret this as 5K * 1000 ? 
The only thing is, I just don't trust Google that, if I write an app that uses their service, that they won't nuke it at some point in the future, unlike some of the services that are a lot more expensive.
Well, if I get a free moment, I may update one of those articles to include Google's API.
[edit]Wow, OK, maybe I won't write about it. Clicking on "start free trial" requires name, address and credit card. FU Google, all I want to do is plug in some text and see how it works. Well, let's see what happens when I use a CC I haven't ever activated, mwahahaha [/edit]
[edit2] Darn, that didn't work. [/edit2]
[edit3] Ah, there's a Try the API about half way down the page. That was intuitive. NOT. [/edit3]
[edit4] Don't waste your time. Entities analysis was, well, not working. It simply spit back out what I put in, didn't identify entities at all (I gave it a paragraph of a political speech by Bernie, maybe it knows it all fits under the entity "hot air.") That's too bad, because entity extraction is one of the most interesting things I suppose you could extract your own entities from the syntax analysis.[/edit4]
Marc
modified 20-Jul-16 21:37pm.
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If you go to the Settings app on these newer Windows 10 builds, you'll notice "For Developers" as a new menu item. It forces you to end all sentences with a semi-colon?;
Or:
It changes all MENUS to UPPERCASE?
or:
I can finally press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C to create a new comment on a site?
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As a developer you likely install Windows and then immediately go around to Windows Explorer, the Registry, and a bunch of other places to tweak Windows to how you work as a developer.
Nope, first thing I do is go to Windows Update and kill updates. 
Marc
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Should be part of Developer Mode.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It doesn’t matter if you’re on a Windows or a macOS machine, you have access to amazing IDEs to build iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps and libraries with Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio. But, what if you could take all of your code on the go and with you everywhere you go? Who needs a silly old keyboard?
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Very cool. 
/ravi
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who needs a silly old keyboard
Silly old moi... 
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Damn! The two apps mentioned there are amazing as well. Calca reminds me of Mathcad, but way cheaper.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Calca reminds me of Mathcad, but way cheaper.
They have a community edition now, albeit crippled but I expect still pretty powerful. I used to do tech support for Mthcad many many years ago! 
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: They have a community edition now
Kevin McFarlane wrote: I used to do tech support for Mthcad many many years ago!
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Court disapproved of plaintiff's attempt to use "torrent" as a badge of dishonor. Because there are perfectly legal, non-piracy uses that people use torrents for all the time?
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Such as distributing ISO's for various open source project - LibreOffice, OpenSuse Linux...
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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There we go - I knew there would be something. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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I recently worked at a company with such a bad network that I couldn't download a Debian iso I needed without it breaking, so I used a torrent. And got in trouble. (In the end, I went with Fedora. I also installed Windows 10, but didn't connect it to the domain, and thus had no more issues downloading things.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because there are perfectly legal, non-piracy uses that people use torrents for all the time?
Actually, yes, there are.
For example, MS's own SCCM uses something similar to distribute application installation content between workstations authorized to do so. It saved on bandwidth between sites and costs to setup distribution point servers. Send the package once to a workstation in a remote site and it can "torrent" the content to other workstations inside the same site, without a server around to do it. You can have all the workstations in a site sharing their application install content with each other, independent of any servers.
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When you read academic papers, you aren't looking for treachery and deceit behind the stolid prose. Don't be so trusting: universities can be a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Here's help. "And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade."
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The bigger problem is, IMO, not the outright lies to the public, but the lies the scientists tell themselves. Nowhere does this seem more rampant than in psychology studies (I've posted about this before) where a faulty study and faulty analysis becomes the foundation stone for years for additional studies and conclusions, all citing the earlier faulty studies, then each other, etc. Some of these papers are such a farce.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: more rampant than in psychology studies
Except so-called climate change (aka, global warming) studies.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You are aware, of course, that each of the last 14 months has globally been the highest recorded for that month since we've been collecting data.
But of course, global warming isn't happening. I'm sure there's a convenient sandpit to bury your head in. Just be careful, it may be rather warm.
Hottest ever June marks 14th month of record-breaking temperatures | Environment | The Guardian[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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So what? It was warmer that it is now for about 300 years around 1000 years ago. And 20,000 years ago it was way colder than now, in fact it was the end of an ice age.
Climate change may be happening, but the reality is we don't know the cause. And by evidence and historical data, it appears to many scientists to be a natural cycle. Other alarmist/scientists are just guessing out their hairy asses.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
modified 20-Jul-16 13:28pm.
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It doesn't really matter the cause, if we want to leave a world fit for our children, we may have to take steps to mediate it anyway. That certainly doesn't include continuing to burn fossil fuels, which have a well known influence on the climate.
Of course, you probably think that is a conspiracy from climate scientists, some of whom maybe earn $100K to enrich themselves, as opposed to the multi-billion fossil fuel industry who have no vested interests, and haven't been shown, time and again, to obfuscate evidence in their own interest.
But if it makes you feel better about your life style, keep your head in the sand. I just hope you can look your children in the eye when they live with the consequences.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: It doesn't really matter the cause
It does when fake science is used to put bs political policies in place.
Rob Grainger wrote: conspiracy from climate scientists
Conspiracy? Who said that? It's just basically self-serving fudging to satisfy who pays their salaries.
Rob Grainger wrote: fuel industry
Same thing. Scientists fudging things to fit the needs of who pays them.
Rob Grainger wrote: obfuscate evidence in their own interest
Done on both sides.
Rob Grainger wrote: life style
I drive a 100% electric vehicle. Thank you very much.
Rob Grainger wrote: keep your head in the sand
I like honesty and forthrightness and thinking for myself.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Exactly the rabbit-hole I was expecting this discussion to fall into. 
I must be psychic.
TTFN - Kent
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Glad to have obliged.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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