Why is the US focused on Iran so much right now? I say we focus on the real threat: Greenland. That’s right — Greenland. Why nuke the poor peace-loving people of Greenland, you might ask. They are not doing anything per se. But they are sitting on a mountain of fresh water locked in their [...]
Archive for 6 December 2007
The case for nuking Greenland
Posted: 6 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: atomic bomb, global warming, greenland, humor, ice age, nukes
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Cognate Identification: Definition
Posted: 6 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: classes, cognate identification, cognates, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, language and statistics, language change, presentations
I recently finished a literature review for my Language & Statistics 2 class. The topic was computational models of historical linguistics and my partner and I focused on cognate identification and phylogenetic inference. We split the work and my part was cognate identification. So I decided to blog about it for a bit and maybe [...]
