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Is there a word limit for the final assignment? I’ve looked in the course guide and on the assignment page…can’t find anything? #mscedc

Is there a word limit for the final assignment? I’ve looked in the course guide and on the assignment page…can’t find anything? #mscedc

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As ever, I initially crumple when faced with freedom…

Fascinated by how neutral we appear to be. #mscedc https://t.co/WAn6hQmjcC

Fascinated by how neutral we appear to be. #mscedc https://t.co/WAn6hQmjcC

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I’m intrigued by the notion that Keyhole purports to be able to deliver information about sentiment. As a former English teacher, I was inherently sceptical about this: I used to spend much time with my students discussing connotations and the slipperiness of words…So, this was interesting:

Evaluation

‘The accuracy of a sentiment analysis system is, in principle, how well it agrees with human judgments. This is usually measured by precision and recall. However, according to research human raters typically agree 79% of the time.

Thus, a 70% accurate program is doing nearly as well as humans, even though such accuracy may not sound impressive. If a program were “right” 100% of the time, humans would still disagree with it about 20% of the time, since they disagree that much about any answer . More sophisticated measures can be applied, but evaluation of sentiment analysis systems remains a complex matter. For sentiment analysis tasks returning a scale rather than a binary judgement, correlation is a better measure than precision because it takes into account how close the predicted value is to the target value.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis

 

Anyone know how to alter the date range here to reflect only our activity during last Thur/Fri? https://t.co/5K1UV9oQPD #mscedc

Anyone know how to alter the date range here to reflect only our activity during last Thur/Fri? https://t.co/5K1UV9oQPD #mscedc

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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ https://t.co/RhgMCOMVi2 #mscedc

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ https://t.co/RhgMCOMVi2 #mscedc

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Harari’s thinking here is at times, determinist, but the discussion of transhumanist ideas is interesting: “I think that Homo sapiens as we know them will probably disappear within a century or so, not destroyed by killer robots or things like that, but changed and upgraded with biotechnology and artificial intelligence into something else, into something different. The timescale for that kind of change is maybe a century.”