September 14, 2009
I re-watched the classic Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup last night and three (barely) finance-related bits stuck out. Yes, this as a thinly veiled attempt to get the Marx Brothers on TGR. First, a timely discussion of the politics of debt, in Groucho's extended introduction: Groucho: "Now, how about lending this country 20 million dollars [...]
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April 27, 2009
I have been doing some research on text analysis, in particular on extracting sentiment in the absence of context (a la Twitter). Among all the theory, I came across the following joke which I think really captures the complexity of any natural language processing (not that it prevents us from trying): A linguistics professor was [...]
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