Month: February 2012

  • Twitterlog for the week of 2012-02-26

    I am among the math clergy, but like @Wordie, "I'm both dubious of and excited by [@worrydream's] 'Kill Math' project" http://t.co/eTTOwQjj #

  • Twitterlog for the week of 2012-02-19

    debunking critical period http://t.co/oXtlK76u (via @aria42). "kids… [merely] persistent" (kids, I might add, also not afraid of failure.) # http://t.co/9d8qZUdg Spolsky on bottom-up management. His points seem obvious but bear repeating. # aw, missing a UW/AI talk on "submodular bandits" (tho for very good reason: job interviews!). #greatbandname # Hey look, @kotaku on linguistics/naming/phonological plausibility…

  • Twitterlog for the week of 2012-02-12

    On the relative value of online and in-person interaction: http://t.co/yaGQU8PS (h/t @lynneguist) # Tough job market for new Hogwarts grads: muggles can't tell Slytherin from Hufflepuff, ask hard questions re: turnover in Dark Arts dep't. # hey @hanachronism — just came across this comic. Useful re: what to tell 14-year-olds about grad school http://t.co/OOeqosWY #

  • Twitterlog for the week of 2012-02-12

    On the relative value of online and in-person interaction: http://t.co/yaGQU8PS (h/t @lynneguist) # Tough job market for new Hogwarts grads: muggles can't tell Slytherin from Hufflepuff, ask hard questions re: turnover in Dark Arts dep't. # hey @hanachronism — just came across this comic. Useful re: what to tell 14-year-olds about grad school http://t.co/OOeqosWY #

  • Looking for work, 2012 edition

    A short note (implied by my updates on Twitter), just to say: I was laid off last week from my previous employment in an abrupt downsizing — a company pivot, evidently away from the work I like to do.  I’m looking for work now.  Below the jump: what I’m looking for.

  • Twitterlog for the week of 2012-02-05

    Hey! You! Hiring a clever, #seattle based, wordy, shockingly handsome, stats/computational linguist/software-geek/PhD? #callme # Also. Apropos of the previous tweet: layoffs suck. # peevologists: @yoisthisracist has your back today. http://t.co/AQExL3HH # At @dorkbotsea with @eldang @jkopel @cprosser and more. # Burners recapitulate Hobbes' Leviathan. Next up: "hard-core" (rising mercantile class) will impose a Magna Carta……

  • Twitterlog for the week of 2012-02-05

    Hey! You! Hiring a clever, #seattle based, wordy, shockingly handsome, stats/computational linguist/software-geek/PhD? #callme # Also. Apropos of the previous tweet: layoffs suck. # peevologists: @yoisthisracist has your back today. http://t.co/AQExL3HH # At @dorkbotsea with @eldang @jkopel @cprosser and more. # Burners recapitulate Hobbes' Leviathan. Next up: "hard-core" (rising mercantile class) will impose a Magna Carta……