I See Dead Code

Some participants of this semester’s „Computational Linguistics” course (which is a code word for „10 different lecturers guide you through the wonderful world of algorithms and theoretical foundations of CoLi”) obviously lack a life and willfully extended their own homework assignment, writing small toolkits for finite state automata.
Surprisingly, all those toolkits were written in Python [...]

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Today: The Bag of Words

For those of you who don’t know what a bag of words [model] is, just imagine a bag of words, because it’s ultimately the same thing.

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Sometimes I wonder what the hell I might have been thinking while writing code like this1 :

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def uncurry(f):
return lambda t: f(*t)
 
def longest_common_prefix(Sa, Sb):
return len(list(
takewhile(uncurry(eq),
[...]

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I don’t know whether the author tries to be funny, or if he is just being himself (from the Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog):

Speaking of Linux and UNIX, some people may be (mis)interpreting our continued support and investment in these platforms as a broader change for Microsoft – so here’s some color. We’re making a pragmatic [...]

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