see4
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I am writing algorithms to create correlations between two or more related documents. Basically I'm building a relevance engine. I'm writing in Python, utilizing the NLTK toolkit.
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desert dude
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Just to throw you a bone here. I appreciate you being a big enough man to listen to a dissenting opinion and reexamine your own conclusion and recognize that you made a mistake. To be perfectly honest, I sometimes make mistakes as well.
see4
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I double majored in Finance and Accounting. I was a financial analyst, then self taught software engineer. I write enterprise level software for Fortune 100 companies. I rewrote HomeDepot's cache engine. I'm good at maths.
see4
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Thanks. My reading comprehension failed me hard. However, the statistics don't explain the reason. Why do you suppose black people are 4 times more likely to commit a violent crime?
desert dude
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Poverty, SES, absent fathers, broken families.
see4
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Do you think they choose to live that way?
desert dude
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I triple majored in computer science, math and chemistry. I have worked on dozens of weapons systems. I am also good at math.
TBoneJack
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O hell no!!! A business major writing critical software? WTF is the world coming to?
Just kidding man. One of our best engineers got his degree in finance, worked in retail for 5 years, then went back and got his engineering degree and writes great software today.
desert dude
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I can't imagine anybody would choose to live in poverty. I think the welfare state has so destroyed black families that the large majority of blacks see no other way to live.
TBoneJack
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I've read enough of both @desert dude's posts and @see4's posts to know they can both outshoot me. Except maybe in skeet. I just love those Browning 425 O/Us.
NewtoMJ
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I choose to live in an impoverished area, for reasons. Mostly because people are not as nosy.
TBoneJack
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desert dude
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I like skeet. I have a Browning Citori O/U, but I have been lusting after a semi-auto for a while. Thinking about a Benelli but every time I scrape together $1500 I wind up blowing it on trivial stuff like a new gold crown for a molar. I am fair at skeet, probably middle of the pack.
desert dude
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I grew up dirt poor. Middle class is better.
desert dude
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I love science. I always have loved science. Math is just the language of science, as well as the purest intellectual pursuit known to man. Math truly stands alone.
TBoneJack
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Me too; middle of the pack. I like to shoot though.
What about that Beretta 391? Last I saw of them, they had a fully adjustable stock and soft but relatively clean gas operation.
desert dude
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The Baretta is also on the short list.
see4
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I hardly write the code these days. I manage developers now. But once in a while I architect systems and write stub code to get less senior people up and running. I also code review and fix other people's mistakes. Nobody on my team knows how to write the relevance and correlation algorithms, so it's up to me to get it done. So I do.
UncleBuck
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i tend to think it is more pathetic when a man espouses some neck down evolution theory for years and then runs away like a little coward when it is discovered that it is a favorite little pet theory of white supremacists.
wouldn't you agree?
UncleBuck
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so you don't think it had anything to do with jim crow laws imposed on black people by whites?
or perhaps the continuing racism from whites that leads to things like black people being arrested for cannabis 4 times as often as whites, despite similar usage rates?
are you trying to say that black people brought their SES upon themselves single handedly?
if the hand of the welfare state is so iron, then why do more than half the people that use it get off of it within a year or two? doesn't sound so ironclad to me.
i don't think your white supremacy talking points are going to cover this one.