Well, that only tells me you haven't played enough with your data or 
haven't chosen best models to base your predictions of. No NLP 
software/whatever in the world will tell you "what is this sentence about" 
with high confidence without giving the system a concrete context. That's a 
task people's been trying to solve for many years. Once you have a context 
though, you're not that far from what Predictions API does.

It pretty much often looks like you're taking some numbers from the sky and 
round them up. Take a close look 
at https://developers.google.com/prediction/docs/pricing, 10k 
predictions/months cost $0; $0.50 for each 1k above 10k; $0.50 for 250Mb of 
1 dataset training. cloud storage cost nothing. I don't see $20k not even 
close.

Well, that of course depends on what you need exactly. Predictions API 
obviously isn't a silver bullet. 

Nice thing about your posts though is you often get me laughing reading 
your so highly confident numbers :)


On Monday, March 5, 2012 6:58:55 PM UTC+1, Brandon Wirtz wrote:
>
> Kind of sort of, not really.
>
>  
>
> Prediction doesn’t give you back any of the NLP, so you can’t say “What is 
> this sentence about”, or what was user trying to search for.
> But also it is SOOOO VERYYYYYY Expensive.    Loading the training data for 
> 10k users to build something like a content recommendation system and then 
> loading all of the data to make recommendations from was going to be in the 
> neighborhood of $20k before I got to the point that I could even evaluate 
> if the system was going to work.
>
> I have played with the prediction API for looking at traffic data to say 
> “Hey you are always ‘UP’ in October” but that was hardly rocket science.
>
>  
>
> What I specifically need in this case is the ability to boil content down 
> to the important bits.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *alex
> *Sent:* Monday, March 05, 2012 10:42 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [google-appengine] Re: NLTK or Equivalent
>
>  
>
> dunno what you're working so, it might totally be not your case but have 
> you considered https://developers.google.com/prediction/ API? you can do 
> some cool stuff related to NLP.
>
>
> alex.
>
>
> On Monday, March 5, 2012 6:21:32 PM UTC+1, Brandon Wirtz wrote:
>
> I was looking to do some things using NLTK and found code.google.com/p/*
> nltk*-gae/ which looks promising, but the code on the site has quite a 
> few errors (most of which I worked through) but has a LOT to be implemented 
> (and relies on MemCache never being flushed to work)
>
> Does anyone know of a better NLTK for GAE implementation? Or do we have an 
> ETA on NLTK being supported on GAE?
>
>  
>
> -Brandon
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