NLP app idea: construct random songs by scraping lyrics websites and stringing together common phrases. It’s a Pandora night for me and here were a couple lyrics that struck me as particularly meaningful. Both by Regina Spektor, introduced to me by Pandora before she became (semi-)famous. And then you take that love you made And [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Late Night Spektor
Posted: 29 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, lyrics, music, nlp, pandora, regina spektor, romanticism, stars
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Pirates Game
Posted: 26 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: dogs, family, mascots, pirates, pittsburgh, pittsburgh pirates, sports
We went to a Pittsburgh Pirates game tonight. They got their asses handed to them by the Phillies. It was so sad. Donna’s brother and his wife were visiting and their husky has separation anxiety. In the 7th inning, we got a call from our neighbor that an old woman came around complaining and saying [...]
Obama vs Clinton Decision Tree
Posted: 24 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: clinton, decision trees, democratic primary, machine learning, obama, presidential election
This is an absolutely awesome visualization of the Democratic race so far.
Effin Clean
Posted: 22 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, blogging, brainfuck, cussing, language, profanity, Uncategorized
Created by OnePlusYou Apparently, I run a rather clean shop. Whodathunkit. And probably most of the cussing comes from my posts on brainfuck. [Via]
Xenolinguistics
Posted: 19 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: alien languages, aliens, books, klingon, linguistics, lord of the rings, xenolinguistics
I have been interested in alien (invented) languages since my first brush with elven in the Lord of the Rings. I checked out The Klingon Dictionary from the library in high school and currently own a copy of it and The Languages of Middle Earth. During high school, I nerdily amused myself by attempting to [...]
I’d like a thorazine shake with that please
Posted: 18 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cacophany, madness, music
At first, I found it annoying. But gradually, it grew on me. And now I like it. A friend said that I’d likely be sipping thorazine shakes at my local asylum tomorrow. The Most Unwanted Song
President Nobody
Posted: 17 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: politics, presidential election, ralph nader, voting
But if you must vote, vote for Nader.
Seven Grand Tech Challenges
Posted: 16 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: futurism, gartner, information technology, it, machine translation, management, predictions, technology
According to Gartner, these will keep us busy for the next 25 years. Eliminate need to recharge batteries on wireless devices Improved parallel processing (at the PL and OS levels) Gesture detection Speech-to-speech machine translation Long term persistent storage 100-fold increase in programmer productivity Identifying the financial consequences of IT investment I think numbers 1-3, [...]
