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14:54:13
Demosthenex
pve: i just found out what i'm trying to describe is called semi-structured data extraction, and libraries like https://github.com/dmulyalin/ttp and https://github.com/google/textfsm/wiki/TextFSM appear to be doing similar things in python
15:32:42
pve
it reminds me of "event extraction" in natural language processing, where the input is normal text, like news articles etc
15:33:58
Demosthenex
yeah, but NLP is much harder. this is more about taking specific numbers in paragraph records and flattening them into database rows
15:44:58
jcowan
takes legal documents and NLP models of important provisions and extracts them from the documents so a lawyer doesn't have to read the whole document
15:45:36
lisp123
The team that created much of MS Office are working in a startup to do this at scale
15:52:07
Demosthenex
i'm just trying to import data from san arrays and san switches into a spreadsheet for my use
15:57:45
lisp123
If I could invest in them, I would...seems like they will be succesful given MS Office Files run in every corporate office + its such a bad format to parse
16:03:39
lisp123
Still, their connections to MS would probably help them a lot - could see them pitching their products to MS for integration into their suite. They have the former head of Azure as a board member / major investor
16:05:01
lisp123
Then again...it is founded by one of the inventors of XML....so maybe they won't do too well :D
16:06:59
jcowan
Don't underestimate Paoli: he was a very heavy hitter before MS reduced him to a robot on the XML WG. MS wanted a seat on that WG, and luckily during the critical design period he was able to contribute a lot.
16:07:32
jcowan
Don't underestimate the applicability of XML to its original domain, documents, either.
16:27:23
Josh_2
If a file is uploaded to hunchentoot, does hunchentoot automatically delete it after the evaluation of the handler?
16:30:48
Bike
i haven't used hunchentoot, but "The file denoted by path will be deleted after the request has been handled - you have to move or copy it somewhere else if you want to keep it. " says the manual
16:54:48
ecraven
is there any way to tell emacs that my lisp does have #+Lispm, and it should not show that code commented out?
17:35:32
random-nick
ecraven: slime should be able to look at the inferior lisp's *features* and show the code as not commented out
17:38:55
lotuseater
random-nick: I tried, first not having :lispm in it, then it looks like a comment, then (pushnew :lispm *features*) and it shows it like code