I’ve never been completely satisfied with the ongoing state of feed readers. Too many of them take the “mail client” paradigm, in which the user interface is modeled after email readers, and makes the implicit assumption that you want to read every single item. This becomes a cognitive dilemma once one’s list of subscriptions becomes […]
Category Archives: General
Aggregators for the New Age
05-Jun-06back.
20-May-06I spent last week attending the CALICO symposium. The attendees were an interesting mix of language teachers, managers of language learning computer labs at Universities, linguists, and a few people interested in Computer Science/Linguist hybrid folk like me, interested in the intersection of Natural Language Processing and AI-driven computer pedagogy. The signal-to-noise ratio would have […]
I’ll be giving a presentation next Friday at 3pm, as part of the Natural Lanuage Processing seminar series, addressing some of my work with the Tactical Language project. All are welcome to attend. This talk will be a preview of the work I’ll be presenting at CALICO this year. —- Time: 3-4pm, Friday 2006/05/12 Location: […]
Two More Hurdles Jumped
04-May-06Ah. Just submitted a summer research proposal last night and my MS thesis this morning (you can read the MS thesis here). Now all I have left is to finish up the slides for CALICO and to wrap up my PhD thesis proposal. Busy, busy, busy.
Cleanup
03-May-06Huh. Leonard got filelight working on his mac. Not willing to headache with fink unstable, I searched around for another solution, and found Disk Inventory X. DIX isn’t bad by any means. It reminds me of SequoiaView, a favorite app of mine from my windows days. DIX’s UI is a bit slow (if, by “a […]
On Rexa
30-Apr-06Rexa, a new player in community bibliography management, was opened to the public a couple weeks ago. Here’s a blog post from the PI on this project (Andrew McCallum) who details the announcement, and a little more here, from Matthew Hurst’s Data Mining blog. A cursory use of the system shows it to be a […]
It’s All Relative
28-Apr-06Signed up for a beta account on plazes, and, by pure coincidence, the one person online in my area was a guy named Greg Mote. This piqued my curiousity, so I dropped him an email. It looks like we’re related somewhere betweeen 6 and 10 generations back. Greg, if you read this, my apologies for […]
Artists as Filters
16-Apr-06I caught the Pelt Quartet down at the Jazz Bakery a while back, and–aside from the amazing music, of course–it got me thinking about the idea of artists as being filters, in addition to creators. Me, I wish I had more time to get into Jazz. Jazz music is like red wine–compared to white wine, […]
“We do not ride the railroad; it rides upon us.” NY Times reports on journalists dumbing down headlines so that they can get higher googlejuice.
On The Success of LaTeX
31-Mar-06I suspect that the success of LaTeX–and its ubiquity as a format for thesis-writing–is in part due to the fact that learning its arcane subtleties is a wonderful source of procrastination. What a glorious escape from having do to actual paper-writing!