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Re: All Makers Have to Start Somewhere, Including Ahmed Mohamed

xcud — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 17:55:19 -0000

Thank you. That's absolutely the correct response. Taking something apart then putting back together in such a way that it still works is an exhilarating experience for a young maker-to-be. The value of this sort of project should not be minimized.

Re: ner

xcud — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:36:16 -0000

On Tuesday (Sep 15, 2015) we made a relatively major change in the back-end. Previously we were doing hosting our NER mechanism via AzureML. Over time we found that calls could take 15 seconds or more to fulfill. We expect better performance from our systems so we rewrote the engine and harness outside of AzureML. This new back-end features a Stanford Core NLP reinforced with ML self-hosted in a custom microservice. Now the average response time is well under 100 milliseconds. We're still optimizing the reinforcement strategy so please do give us your feedback both on the quality of the extraction as well as the performance.
Thanks all!

Re: sentiment

xcud — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:27:05 -0000

This is version 1 of the Sentiment Analysis API. This API is trained on a single, albeit large, data set. In the future I plan to incorporate neural nets trained on several other data sets and provide detailed information about how each of those nets scored in the input.

Re: hello

xcud — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:24:19 -0000

The code behind this 'hello world' borrows heavily from a set of translators written for BBSes and MUDs in the late 80s. The world was text then. It's thrilling now to be building apps whose sole interface is SMS and Email. As I dig up translators I'll post them here. Any requests; Jive, Leet, Valley Girl?

Re: find

xcud — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:18:51 -0000

Designed initially to find email addresses when the Name and Location were known, we're working diligently, improving the API weekly, to provide lookups given any combination vital information; email only, twitter id only, LinkedIn link only, or name and location. Note that location can be specified in any format; formal address, zip code, state, country code.

Re: haar

xcud — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:05:10 -0000

I'm putting together an app that will help you train and manage these Haar Cascade Classifiers. I'm coupling this tech with neural nets to clean up false-positives. The business value of the restultant detectors is compelling. Shoot me a note if you'd like to participate.

Re: What is Windows Azure? - xcud

xcud — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:03:04 -0000

Thanks Bret. The fact that the Azure apps are hosted in Microsoft Data Centers is a big missing piece of the explanation.

Also, there's a whole host of additional add-on services like authentication, caching, once-click CDN deployment, app lifecycle management that I'm missing. Not to mention the Azure App Marketplace (the App Store for Azure).

Re: Meter Software Using Windows PowerShell

xcud — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:45:49 -0000

Nice walk-through. I keep a function in my profile that does this too:

ps | where { $_.StartTime } | select Name, StartTime, @{ N="Uptime"; E={ "{0,20}" -f ([System.DateTime]::Now - $_.StartTime) } }

Re: SUPPORT: IE9 and PowerWF

xcud — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:47:34 -0000

Sorry. The IE9 patch is included in the 2.5 release that's been churning through QA for the past month. We ship when the bits pass QA and not a moment sooner. Anyone interested in getting early access to the daily builds can email me directly; ben@devfarm.com.

Re: Customer Question - PowerWF and Web Services

xcud — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:37:13 -0000

The PowerWF Module installer will install these dependencies. You can find an installer on any machine where PowerWF is installed here: <program files="">\Devfarm Software\Interop. Install the module wherever you intend to run PowerWF created binaries and you'll be good to go.

We are working on making our generated binaries completely self-bootstrapping. You can enable this experimental feature by setting this registry key to "True": HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DevFarm Software\PowerWF Studio\Settings\EmbedBootstrapper

Warning: this is currently an unsupported experimental feature which will be included and fully supported in a future release. If you do turn this on, please send feedback on its performance to me directly at ben@devfarm.com.

Thanks Rudi.

Re: Stop Putting the Arch in Your Logo

xcud — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:54:44 -0000

Going to have to disagree with you on this one Bob. Several of them are actually quite clever. My favorite is of course the one with Mr Hankey eating the arch.

Re: http://xcud.com/post/544524965

xcud — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:29:29 -0000

I couldn't really ask for a better reception for the product. Here's a screencast of the big-impact demo I gave: http://bit.ly/9XzMpL

Re: xcud - MSChart in Psh

xcud — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:25:10 -0000

From the blog entry;

Edit the lib and edit the input param list in the function “New-Chart” from this:

param ([int]$width,[int]$height,[int]$left,[int]$top,$chartTitle)

To this:

param ([int]$width,[int]$height,[int]$left,[int]$top,[string]$chartTitle)

Voila. Re-import the module and the error is gone.

Re: PowerWF - I’m very excited to demo this new feature for you....

xcud — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:06:35 -0000

We're on track to release this build early next week. Once this feature was running well in our labs (early this week) I thought it was worth sharing in a teaser screencast.

Re: Teaser - PowerWF Embedded Shell

xcud — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:27:10 -0000

We released it. Here's the link: http://blog.powerwf.com/pos...

Re: Teaser - PowerWF Embedded Shell

xcud — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:24:45 -0000

The swipe text -> import is working now. It's very cool.

We'll put out a build with this feature plugged in sometime this week (sooner rather than later).

Re: PowerCLI Stack

xcud — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:46:54 -0000

Firstly, you're absolutely correct that the VMWare Community Forums are excellent. The experts there are brilliant and responsive.

The question is, "what's the advantage of a site like StackOverflow over the existing forums?".

The forum user experience was designed from the ground up to facilitate conversation. This is evident in any VMWare Community forum thread (e.g. http://communities.vmware.c.... It's a threaded conversation which starts with a question, one or more people engage the questioner, a conversation happens, an answer is eventually formulated and accepted, then the questioner thanks the answerer. Reputation points awarded by a questioner to the winning answer and helpful answers. The paradigm of awarding points for answers is bolted onto the forum system. It's a very cool feature and more importantly it establishes a marketplace where the goods are questions and answers and the currency is reputation.

From what I can tell the StackOverflow sites were designed from the ground up to facilitate this paradigm/marketplace. This is evident on any StackOverflow thread (http://stackoverflow.com/qu.... It starts with a single person posing a question. Almost instantly 10s (or sometimes 100s) of people simultaneously engage the questioner either by submitting their own answer to compete in the marketplace of answers or by voting on existing answers, comments, and even the question itself. In addition to streamlining the Q&A marketplace the stack sites have done other things smartly like fully implementing tagging to make filtering easier and allow for easier search engine indexing, providing a rich set of earnable 'badges' and reputation awards, and leveraging OpenID for authentication (think single sign-on for the Internet).

Re: Life Among The Savages - Another 2 miles. That makes 12.5 Stop in a...

xcud — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:17:24 -0000

She got right on that.

Re: The Developer Is In

xcud — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:02:01 -0000

By soon, of course, I mean the month of May ...

Re: U-verse

xcud — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:12:59 -0000

Essentially it's TV and Phone over the Internet. They run the data over a fiberoptic line to your home. Theoretical speeds in the 25MB/s range. Most of the bandwidth is reserved for TV. The phone and web surfing don't take up much most of the time. https://uverse.att.com/

Re: U-verse

xcud — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:06:38 -0000

ATT came by and did something to the line coming into our house last week. I've got my fingers cross that they are prepping our neighborhood for fiber/UVerse.

Re: Saint Louis Bloggers

xcud — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:20:58 -0000

I see your ping in the sidebar and in twitter ...

Re: Merry Christmas!

xcud — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:25:28 -0000

New rule. The dress code for Christmas day dinners at our house is PJ's. It's official. Really.

Re: It's 10:37pm

xcud — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:57:30 -0000

Huffington's people took video/pictures in the greenroom before the show: link

Re: Hugh & Bot

xcud — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:06:30 -0000

Oh hey. I noticed that I'd forgotten to bring the hughandbot.com site back up when I moved to the new server. Sorry about that. It's back up now.