Trochaisms
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-06-19
Typographic sculpture in Seattle (@ SAM – Olympic Sculpture Park) http://picplz.com/5BKJ # Really nice to see @soypunk for lunch today. Hope I'll have more such opportunities. Nevertheless, long day & I'm knackered. # anybody know how the (academic) publishing industry is organized (X owns Y, Z is a division of P, etc)? extra credit if…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-06-12
Good advice; missing "make/keep friends for reality checks" MT @mergedlauren: "blunt, much [is] true. grad students: http://t.co/9GQXxeC" # There should be a name for @theYesmen @BPGlobalPR & @RickSantorumPR fake-out-the-fakers reverse-astroturfing move. Name people: suggestions? # Google Music beta looks spiff… and won't work AT ALL from any variety of Linux. All my music is on…
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order word constant information does have?
I’ve been reading — in my “copious free time”, as they say: Montemurro MA, Zanette DH, 2011 “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families.” PLoS ONE 6(5): e19875. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019875 This article takes on some of the really nifty ideas of information theory, and asks one deceptively simple question: how much information does word order contribute to human language?…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-06-05
Living room reading corner. I love the light here. http://picplz.com/x3gp # Yes, this IS a baseball signed by Chomsky. A graduation gift from my aunt. http://picplz.com/xjBb # Seattle weather comes to visit San Francisco (@ San Francisco Caltrain Station) http://picplz.com/gF4R # .@KevinBMcGowan has a brilliant PI and does great PR for their joint research: http://t.co/zsZYSmB…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-05-29
whoa; LC axing MARC. A lot of attention thrown at NLP — guess I'll have work for a while. http://tinyurl.com/3rj47yp (via @amandafrench) # Attn @blackwingedboy @moosepajamas "Video of the day. RT @beautyislikeyea This kid is so lucky. http://t.co/jvRhx3l" via @stevesilberman # RT @mrfaulty "They tricked me into believing facts which are already true and somewhat…
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Norvig says it better
Those who got fired up about Chomsky’s difficult comments regarding empiricism, including myself, will be gratified to see that Peter Norvig, patron saint of data-driven computational linguistics (inter alia), has released his own comments, along the same lines as mine, only better researched, more broadly researched, more respectful, more thorough, and, well, coming from the keyboard…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-05-22
NLP/linguistics/machine-learning folks: who's doing interesting work in Yale or New Haven that I should talk to, were I to visit? # Up way too early to go run across the city with thousands of other people. #b2b100 # Done! Approx 65 min. For a 9min mile pace: not bad for no training. # there are…
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Gauss is my shepherd
So this happened: I said this over on Twitter, but it’s too good not to record again here: The alt-text suggests that Munroe’s EM draws Gods from a normal distribution. (A Gaussian!) (did you know there’s an entire website dedicated to explaining XKCD to the great unwashed? I think if you have to explain it, it’s…
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Character encodings – a short tutorial
There is a huge profusion of terms around sets of letters, symbols, and characters and how they are encoded onto computers. I found myself embroiled in this mess working at a speech-technology company back in the day as we struggled to adapt a speech recognizer designed for English to cope with Korean — which turns…
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Bay to Breakers, followup
I bicycled to the Embarcadero early this morning to the start of the Bay to Breakers, and ran it (on foot, taking Muni back to the Embarcadero after) in a personal record time of 1:04:47 (last year: 1:14:04). According to the RFID timer reports on the race website, that’s: an 8:42 mile pace; 93rd percentile…