Amazon govcloud is likely HIPAA-able, though I also have my reservations On Friday, January 31, 2014, Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org> wrote:
> I'm sure that REST services have their place in the world, but I sure > hope that NLP will not move more and more to the cloud. > > Consider running a business processing confidential or sensitive data > with NLP. I'd not at all feel comfortable contracting third-party > web-services to do that processing for me. I may consider running a > private cloud at some cloud hosting service, but actually, I may most > probably tend to set up a private in-house cloud or cluster. > > Within research, there have been studies that web services are > detrimental to reproducibility [1,2]. Services change or become > unavailable, which can make it difficult to impossible to reproduce > experimental results. > > I sure hope that NLP tools will continue to be distributed as portable > software. Of course, REST in *addition* to underlying portable > software and resources are a fine thing. > > Cheers, > > -- Richard > > [1] How Reliable is Your workflow: Monitoring Decay in Scholarly > Publications > J. M. Gómez-Pérez and E. Garcia-Cuesta and J. Zhao and A. Garrido and J. > E. Ruiz and G. Klyne > 75 (2013) > > [2] Best practices for workflow design: how to prevent workflow decay > K. M. Hettne and K. Wolstencroft and K. Belhajjame and C. A. Goble and E. > Mina and H. Dharuri and D. De Roure and L. Verdes-Montenegro and J. Garrido > and M. Roos > (2012) > > > On 31.01.2014, at 10:24, andy mcmurry <mcmurry.a...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > I completely agree. > > > > Pure functional programming has the benefit of being immutable which is > > nice for parallel computing. Clojure/Haskell are both purely functional, > > whereas Scala can be written functionally if the author chooses. They are > > all good languages. > > > > Groovy also has its place. Groovy is wonderfully simple, especially > > for "*getting > > started*" examples for new users familiar with Java. > > > > REST would really demystify things (I hope). > > I'm not a big proponent of "cloud" services, but I imagine more and more > > NLP processing will up on Amazon with REST calls. > > > > --AndyMC > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Steven Bethard < > steven.beth...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:24 AM, andy mcmurry > >> <mcmurry.a...@gmail.com<javascript:;> > > > >> wrote: > >>> Clojure, having its origins in LISP, is a better fit for serious NLP > >> work than Groovy > >> > >> Sorry, I have to call this one out. I don't think having origins in > >> LISP makes anything a better fit for serious NLP work. Not that I'm > >> against Clojure or that I'm recommending Groovy. But there's nothing > >> inherent about LISP that makes it a better fit for NLP. > >> > >> If you want to argue that functional paradigms (e.g. LISP, Haskell, > >> Scala, Map-Reduce) are better for serious NLP work, I might believe > >> that argument. But I don't think there's anything special about LISP > >> that makes it better for NLP than other functional languages. > >> > >> Steve > -- -- Karthik Sarma UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program Class of 20?? Member, UCLA Medical Imaging & Informatics Lab Member, CA Delegation to the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association ksa...@ksarma.com gchat: ksa...@gmail.com linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ksarma
