This week, Twitter upped their single-tweet character limit from 140 to 280, purportedly based on this interesting analysis of tweet lengths published on Twitter's engineering blog. The gist of the analysis is this: English language tweets display a rough... (more…)

This talk will introduce the area of NLP (Natural Language Processing) and a basic introduction of its principles. It will use Python and some of its fundamental NLP packages, such as NLTK, to illustrate examples and topics, demonstrating how to get start... (more…)

Many of the ideas I've been playing around with lately are of the distributed, secure & networked kind. Since distributed asynchronous networks are tricky beasts, I want to leverage the existing network of such nature commonly known as email. This que... (more…)

Python interface to Boilerpipe, Boilerplate Removal and Fulltext Extraction from HTML pages - misja/python-boilerpipe... (more…)

cracking-the-da-vinci-code-with-google-interview-problems-and-nlp-in-python - A guide on how to crack combinatorics puzzles shown in The Da Vinci Code movie using CS fundamentals and NLP... (more…)