Vannevar Bush predicts how I spent my post-lunchtime. A mention during lunch of Wittgenstein lead me to read about Bertrand Russell which in turn led to analytic philosophy and logical positivism (no I didn’t succumb to Hegel’s side of things, too). Instead I got caught up in John Searle and found this great talk that […]
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Via Great Minds Working and Slashdot: neurobiologists at MIT are studying the role of the basal ganglia in bird songs, in an effort to learn more of the BG‘s role in human L1A (first language acquisition) & language processing. Here’s MIT’s press release I think the fact that this comparison between birds and humans is […]
Manhattan Clam Chowder
19-Apr-05Manhattan Clam Chowder uses a tomato base, while its more common New England Cousin uses cream. Ingredients: 2 or 3 6.5 oz cans of clams, with juice 4 or 5 bacon slices, diced 1 onion, diced 1.5 potatoes, diced 2 tomatoes, cubed 1 bunch spinach, cut. 1 28oz can of peeled tomatoes, cubed, with juice […]
Freetag
19-Apr-05Freetag – an Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications. Gordon is awesome.
Mass Transit and Google Maps
19-Apr-05Spent the good part of an hour yesterday night helping my girlfriend navigate between Big Blue Bus and Culver City Bus routes, so that she can get from Westwood to Culver city without a car. What a pain. After seeing the wonderful hack combining housing on Craigslist with Google Maps, it seems like it might […]
As of last night I finished up a submission to Eurospeech 2005 with Abhinav Sethy. I’ve posted it here: Modeling and Automating Detection of Errors in Arabic Language Learner Speech. In a nutshell: Understanding bad-accent/bad-grammar learner speech is hard for humans. And what’s hard for humans is even harder for machines. Compound a relative lack […]
Spring
10-Apr-05Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people […]
1.5 Upgrade
09-Apr-05Upgraded to 1.5 Testing post.