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		BeetleB 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 div... I know someone who is the CIO of a federal agency. DOGE used scapy to analyze job descriptions and grants. Yes to ML, but still done as a blunt force instrument.

warkdarrior 4 months ago [–]

> DOGE used scapy to analyze job descriptions and grants.

Scapy, the network packet library?? How does one apply network-packet analysis to job descriptions and grants???

philipkglass 4 months ago | [–]

In that context scapy was probably a typo for spaCy, a popular natural language processing library for Python:

https://spacy.io/

BeetleB 4 months ago | | [–]

Ah yes. My typo...

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