I haven't written here in 8 months. Part of the reason for that is that I've swapped jobs. At the old place, I spent about 90% of my time writing C++, and about 10% of the time using other languages, including Python, Perl, web languages, and last, and ... (more…)

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Makover is natural language generation, where you'll train a model how to speak and have it generate new text for you. You may use the simplest possible model, but the results may still surprise you in their sophistication.