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sxsw microaggregated

15-Mar-05

Some day, I need to go to SXSW–if only for the experience of being around so many creative nerds at the same time. I never see some of my friends so brimming over with ideas and vitality of life as when they come back from something like this… In the mean time, i can live […]

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Modeling Second Language Learner Speech Presentation

10-Dec-04

I’m one hour away from my presentation. Here are my powerpoint slides (with perhaps too verbose of attached speaker notes, because I’m like that). While I hoped to have more actual statistical results for my talk, lack of both time and enough annotation data kept me from that. Will definitely have it by the time […]

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Rene Magritte – Clairvoyance

05-Dec-04

I like this picture. It talks to me about what it is to be a good artist, and a good designer. To see the potential as clearly as (or even more clearly than) one sees the actual… I love the way the artist is staring so intently at the egg, as if copying down from […]

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Modeling Second Language Learner Speech

03-Dec-04

A week from now I’m giving a talk on creating a language model for second-language-learner speech (basically, my PhD research up to this point, and what will eventually become my thesis). Information: Speaker: Nick Mote Date: 10 Dec 04 Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm Location: Information Sciences Institute (Marina Del Rey, California) Abstract: ISI’s Tactical Language […]

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The New School of Ontologies

30-Nov-04

A paper I wrote on ontologies (and, more directly, folksonomy) for a databases class I’m taking. Summarizes much of the thought that’s out there in the blogosphere. There’s a lot more I wanted to cover, but I was space-constrained. Here’s a preliminary version, full of rushed thoughts and unpolished wordsmithing. Will upload a cleaner, more […]

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Ontologies, Taxonomies, and Folksonomies

29-Nov-04

Am writing a paper on “folksonomies” as contrasted with vanilla ontologies for a databases class. Really, it’s a contrast between distributed classification vs professional annotation (which is, in turn, a microcosm of what’s happening thru the web at large–blogs vs newspapers, blah blah blah). The paper is just a short thing, 5 pages. And for […]

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Python?

28-Oct-04

It’s time for the Big Code Port. Moving away from Java and into something else more easily linked in with our existing project (UnrealScript and Python). Options were C,C++,Python,C#. C++ is an old standby, but Python shows intriguing promise. The downside is I don’t know it yet, but the upside is that it’s one of […]

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Wikalong

17-Sep-04

Running commentary on the www implemented as wiki

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CPAN and You

08-Sep-04

How to use CPAN to install a perl module CPAN Frequently Asked Questions

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myhacks: align, excel2csv,

01-Sep-04

file under *tocode will prolly take just as much time to write as it will to scope out. simple script to align the columns in a multi-column file: it’ll take in a file of tab-sep or multi-space sep columns, read it all in, and have the length of the space between columns be the length […]

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