MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.MALLET includes sophisticated tools for document classification: efficient routines for converting text to “features”, a wide variety of algorithms (including Naïve Bayes, Maximum Entropy, and Decision Trees), and code for evaluating classifier performance using several commonly used metrics.via MALLET homepage.

Really need to take a look at this, or make a list of alternative software I can use…

This is a bit old now, and Stephen Wolfram’s view of the world isn’t always consensual, but it’s obviously a good 20min presentation!

(I like the way he modded the MacBook Pro and uses his iPad for the presentation notes…)

Em relação ao post sobre a Wook queria agradecer o apoio e a divulgação que todos demonstraram aqui, por email e no twitter e actualizar-vos em relação aos últimos acontecimentos.

Enviámos um email a exigir que nos contactassem por telefone, o que fizeram ontem e onde prometeram resolver o problema da inventada dívida de 60€. Trocámos o tal livro de 40€, que eles não tinham, por outros de valor semelhante e o vale da promoção foi de novo activado. Se cumprirem a promessa e enviarem os livros da encomenda, o assunto morre por aqui. Quanto a voltar a comprar na Wook… isso já é outra história.

Mais uma vez obrigado a todos pelo apoio. Reclamar, protestar e indignar-se vale a pena, mesmo quando somos pequeninos e Golias invencível!

• Python
• Java
• C
• ADA
• Prolog
• Scala
• Haskell

This is just a list of programming languages, not a preference order. Each has different purposes and is there due to different reasons. While I work mainly with the top 3, the others programming languages are there because of some special aspect that makes them interesting.

This is an evolving list… Who knows which programming languages I’ll be on this list  in a few months…

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The resurgence of the so-called “kill switch” legislation came the same day Egyptians faced an internet blackout designed to counter massive demonstrations in that countryvia Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play | Threat Level | Wired.com.

It’s time to stop our STUPID governments from using “Protection” and “Defense” as justifications to remove “Civil Rights”…

Fans of Google who were rooting for the company in the Oracle v. Google copyright infringement case over Java may be a bit dismayed after reading the claims from Florian Mueller this week. According to Mueller, there is mounting evidence in the original source files from Oracle’s Java and Google’s Android that code was indeed infringed.via Google’s Java Infringement Refuted – PCWorld.

I’ve been following this Java debacle for long time now… and I’m starting to be fed up with it… Maybe it’s time to start developing something really new, that can be widely adopted, and is really “Free” and I mean free in the sense of “NO STRINGS ATTACHED, NO LAWSUITS, , NO COPY(UP OR DOWN), NO NOTHING”. That’s what we really  need.