Trochaisms
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-12-18
"The Rise of Developeronomics" is creepy as hell. Reads like "The Mount" or "To Serve Man" http://t.co/xi8hU0Br via @wordie #IAmNotATrophy # This short film introduced me to the AI Box experiment. Reminiscent of Haldeman's Forever Peace http://t.co/7gTPYA0Q (via J Noguchi) # En route to San Francisco, after the no-backscatter-please patdown. # They gave me the…
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Dolphins are nifty — but not magical
I saw this, and thought others would find it interesting too. … said one of the phoneticians at my alma mater. It’s a collection of rather fantastic claims about “dolphin language”, mixed with breathless praise for their affirming-the-consequent “Aqua Thought Foundation” (slogan might as well be “we already know dolphins are better than us”) and…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-12-11
Mother Box only gets good cell coverage on New Genesis #FourthWorldProblems # How to answer academic hate mail: write a paraliptic (prosleptic, cataphrastic) refusal to respond. http://t.co/VVI220sh (via @Fritinancy) # To crush your soul, but in a goingforward synergistic way, google "commitment to excellence". with quotes. #chickendespairforthesoul # At Columbia City Theater with @eldang, waiting…
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Mostly harmless
I got to go out with three computationally-sharp alums of my linguistics department last night. I’m proud to be friends with all of them, and it’s nice to know there are reasons we all have the same “ancestry” — we have, at the very least, quite compatible senses of humor. Bill and I have a running…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-12-04
y'all know about Google Chrome's Genderswap Plugin, right? http://t.co/wnH4ruie via @The_MarySue #awesome #nlp #RegexAgainstTheMachine # VentureBeat has a nice piece about my employer @QuidLabs http://t.co/2oq3d2QF (with a few choice quotes from @sgourley!) # Fred Clark is my kind of emacs evangelist, but not in the way you think: http://t.co/TOnKDTs4 did you know you've been using…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-11-27
Frosty Sunday morning at the park http://t.co/weR9Dhfx # TechCrunch discovers former Seattlite, always awesome Mike Daisey: http://t.co/swI2VI7o . I want to watch this! # OH at work: "Orphan Thanksgiving at R's house, so I guess he's the Indian & we're the Pilgrims." # Big LOL Cats. Yes. http://t.co/t9VnNSBO via @emckean . #linguist #puns Your ideas…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-11-20
more on moving from academics to industry from @wpmcn in the comments on Trochaisms: http://t.co/4j9n21wC # Portland Occupy, from Twitter reports, is about to get beat down by suburban [Salem] cops. Oakland, Seattle 1999, does this sound familiar? # "beanbag shotgun" sounds cuddly, but PDX cops have TERRIBLE HISTORY here: http://t.co/oz6jEwez "…oops!" # congratulations @jasonbaldridge…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-11-13
Only just now rolling in from a lovely afternoon riding around Discovery Park with @melindaminch and then dinner with her and @eldang! Yay! # The Codex Seraphinianus is available online: http://t.co/JXCcD6v4 (h/t @clintmarsh) (OCR *this*, google!) #asemic #text # For @clintmarsh and others excited about the Seraphinianus, the Voynich Manuscript is also online: http://t.co/DUoMItUn #…
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on moving from academics to startups
An old labmate asked me for my thoughts on interviewing (she just graduated with a PhD, and wanted my perspective on interviewing at a startup). I don’t feel like I’m an expert, but I’ve been through the PhD wars and I’ve successfully interviewed at more than one startup in Silicon Valley. I’ve included what I…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-11-06
Google, where are my keys? (@NathanFillion: "Always in the last place I look.") via @pmbAustin http://t.co/iJhWDaAQ # Enjoying @delilahdirk for swashbuckling & also bc Delilah & Selim have Indy/Marion roles, genderswapped. (His chief skill: Really Good Tea.) # .@jfruh that's the problem with mail-order; it's so hard to take stuff back; sometimes we just blame…