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Author: Ricardo Lezama

  • Frequency Counts For Named Entities Using Spacy/Python Over MX Spanish News Text

    On this post, we review some straightforward code written in python that allows a user to process text and retrieve named entities alongside their numerical counts. The main dependencies are Spacy, a small compact version of their Spanish language model built for Named Entity Recognition and the tabular data processing library, Matplotlib, if you’re looking…

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  • Guide for Raspberry Pi Assembly

    Guide for Raspberry Pi Assembly

    Guide on installation of Raspberry Pi and assembly of components. Parts In this guide, we will show a step by step assembly and installation of the Operating System for a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (8gb Ram). For this particular installation, we will need a Vilros kit which consists of the following pieces: • One…

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  • N-Gram Analysis Over Sensitive Topics Corpus

    I was recently able to do some analysis over the Sugar Bear AI violence corpus, a collection of documents classified by analysts over at the SugarBear AI group. The group has been classifying manually thousands of documents of Mexican Spanish news over the past year that deal with the new topics of today: “Coronavirus”, “WFH”,…

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  • Sugar Ray Leonard: ‘Canelo Has My Vote As P4P’

    Sugar Ray Leonard: ‘Canelo Has My Vote As P4P’

    In the Ak & Barak show, Sugar Ray Leonard labeled Canelo as the best pound for pound fighter in the world. Sugar Ray recalled his bouts against Roberto Duran and Marvin ‘Marvelous’ Hagler’s boxing ability. Leonard empathized with Hagler’s inability to tolerate his loss against him. He also praised the abilities of the main names…

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  • Elderly Asian Woman Robbed, Beaten In Oakland, California

    Elderly Asian Woman Robbed, Beaten In Oakland, California

    Betty Yu on Instagram: “OAKLAND GRANDMOTHER ROBBED A 71-year-old woman who just left the bank is seen knocked to the ground and robbed near 6th/International on…” CBS Oakland reporter, Betty Yu, posted on her Instagram account disturbing footage of a group of males who robbed and beat an elderly Asian woman as she had exited…

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  • Southern California: Chicanos Express Outrage Over Attacks On Asian Elderly

    Southern California: Chicanos Express Outrage Over Attacks On Asian Elderly

    Throughout the day, Chicano communities have expressed outrage over violence against Asians stemming from false narratives around the pandemic. In Southern California, Chicano sentiment expresses solidarity with Asian community. This could be observed through social media postings from influential people within the community, like El Indio Botanas & Cervezas. Due to the vast amounts of…

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  • Whose Getting Covid-19 Fatigue?

    Whose Getting Covid-19 Fatigue?

    There are a few ways to interpret the data we have amassed under the web application in Chicano Press. Today, we try to compare the aggregate infection counts to prior months. We hope to infer whose in some sense improving relative to where they were the month before. I’m sure there is a more sophisticated…

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  • Using Spacy in Python To Extract Named Entities in Spanish

    The Spacy Small Language model has some difficulty with contemporary news text that are not either Eurocentric or US based. Likely, this lack of accuracy with contemporary figures owes in part to a less thorough scrape of Wikipedia and relative changes that have taken place in Mexico, Bolivia and other countries with highly variant dialects…

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  • Los Angeles Pre-Covid In Pictures

    Los Angeles Pre-Covid In Pictures

    Pre-Covid the city of Los Angeles was such a pleasant place to wander about. In the radius of a few blocks, you can go from a used, but superb bookstore, then into a food court with delicious food from all over Asia, Mexico and Central America. En Route to one of my workplace sites, we…

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  • Human-AI Symbiosis: Says Who?

    Human-AI Symbiosis: Says Who?

    Human-AI Symbiosis? All #people should decide how modern #humanity unfolds. Web article considers #it#software#industry developments from under a decade ago that may mold the #future#futurism#Intel#Tech#Mexican#Mexico#nlp#AI#humanityhttp://ricardolezama.com/ml/wearables-speech-recognition-how-intels-loss-could-be-tesla-gain/…

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