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Content and Context Analysis Engine: Some Questions

Hi FolksWhat is the fundamental difference between these two kind of analysis. For the sake of simplicity let us consider a piece of text written in English.As I see it, they are both joined at the hip. Because, to analyse the context of a text we need to know what is being said. And to understand what is being said, context has to be understood. eg I love palm (palm as in hand, palm as in...

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Re:Got a web idea ,cant code weblangs: How to pick 'em up on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @02:46PM (#2383870)
You mean duct taped languages? Sorry for being pedantic.

Yes, I did hear many good things about Java as a programming language, right from my grad days. C++ is not a pure oops, java is a pure oops, and some other cool stuff.

As I understand, going to Java will be "grammatically" approach but Django and RoR will be a quick and dirty way. Am I right?

Re:Got a web idea ,cant code weblangs: How to pick 'em up on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:20AM (#2382914)
I am stunned. Is a simple CMS a basic project for PHP? I must admit I dont know much about it, but then Php looks incredibly powerful
Re:Got a web idea ,cant code weblangs: How to pick 'em up on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:17AM (#2382905)
Thanks merijnv,thanks for the inputs.

To be frank,I never did start with PHP, but yes I did flirt with Perl. I know a bit of Perl,(though embarrassed to admit,I lost my patience with Perl midway)

As for Ruby, I strangely had the impression, that I can't attempt at it, without knowing PHP and others.

So anyway for RoR or Django, do I need to learn Ruby and Python respctively to start over, or can I jump straight to it. I have coded in C# and did some personal db work in MySQL . If that helps.

Got a web idea ,cant code weblangs: How to pick 'em up

Hey Folks,I had been programming for quite some time, but I have coded most of the parts on C,C++ and Assembly(yes, assembly for ARM for coding crypto algos) So as you can understand, I dont have much experience in web based technologies.So lets say, I want to be self reliant and start coding on my own. How do I start? :)

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Re:Can anyone recognise this charting library? on Monday November 10, 2008 @01:07AM (#358933)
Come on, geeks! You are my last resort.

You need to help me out! :)

Can anyone recognise this charting library?

http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2008/11/4/saupload_bullandbearnasdaq1998_2003gif.pngThis is the graph generated for the Dot Com crash, quoted by Chris Ciovacco of chrisciovacco.com.Can anyone tell me which library is being used to generate such charts? As I am pretty sure, its out there floating, because I have seen similar looking designs before.Is it Chart Director?I know curiosity and...

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Re:Graphing: Matlab and others on Sunday October 12, 2008 @12:02PM (#330348)
Thanks hs, but can you please talk about it a little more? Do you mean to say the entire graphing engine is matplotlib and it has open apis? I dont know, but I dont think so, Mathworks will allow that.

Moreover, any library as such to be used in languages like C/C++/Perl?

Re:Perl for Equity Analysis? on Sunday October 12, 2008 @11:52AM (#330343)
Thanks SwellJoes, Thanks gtani

But have you noticed that Perl doesnt really have a great charting/graphing or plotting library? So, I am a bit unsure of developing visualisation tools.

And secondly I would like to ask, will it really have a computation edge while handling MBs of data? Or rather put in this way can it scale?

Graphing: Matlab and others

Ever noticed the amazingly brilliant graphs and visualisations Matlab offers? For students and technical people its a sure manna. But along with it comes a heavy price tag.So do you have any suggestions for having such 'high fidelity'[if I am allowed to use this expression] images through other programming languages?Do you know of any such good graphic libraries? How does Matlab do it, can we...

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Perl for Equity Analysis?

Off late, I have grown really mathematical in my equity and financial analytic decisions. Being a trader, I am trying to develop risk management strategies,my own trading setups, testing them, measuring the analytics etc.In light of this, does anybody have suggestions, if Perl is a good choice of language for such work. If so, then why do you think so? If no, what would you suggest? What are...

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Re:Hardware Hacking on Thursday June 26, 2008 @08:31AM (#228505)
Hey Vinz giving it a look... I am actually a hardware/electronics guy. I am working on these stuff day in and day out, so just thought up to pry open the latest gadgets to see whats going inside.And thanks for the reco
Re:Hardware Hacking on Thursday June 26, 2008 @03:15AM (#228338)
@ Xirium

Yeah how stuff works is good, but I would like to have a really product differentiating 'under-the-hood' peak. I want to know the h/w difference between Broadcoms Router and Linksys or something to that effect[just for an example]. But HSW will only tell how generic routers work...

Hardware Hacking

Hi there, Can anybody suggest me a good site which regularly deals with hacking the hardware and prying open to understand more about the common electronic goods. At the end of it, it should give a reader a fair idea about whats running under the hood and 'possible' system architecture.I don't really need an iPhone-only or Mac-only site, I am looking for something more generic, like Wi-Fi...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good biographies to read? on Thursday May 29, 2008 @06:28AM (#203173)
"Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman" [absolutely rockstar of a autobiography]

"Every Second Counts" Lance Armstrong [poignant]

"A beautiful mind" John Forbes Nash [moving, and heart wrenching]

My personal favourite: "Icon" Steve Jobs