I just completed the final requirements of my Masters degree today (the details of which I will save for a future post). It has been a difficult road, and I’m glad it’s done. I didn’t attend any sort of graduation ceremonies, because I don’t go for that sort of thing — at all. Until today, [...]
Archive for June, 2008
MS in Language Technologies
Posted: 30 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, cmu, computational linguistics, grad school, language technologies, lti, masters degree
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I’ve taken to calling her kitten. I was messing around with obscuring the flash. This shot had the flash obscured by an opaque object. I liked the look on her face, but the lighting was too low and led to noise in the capture. So I hit it with the sepia and film grain. The [...]
The limits of collaborative filtering?
Posted: 25 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: attributes, collaborative filtering, logic, machine learning, netflix prize, proportional analogies, recommender systems, relations, similarity
Peter Turney posted recently on the logic of attributional and relational similarity. Attributes are features or characteristics of a single entity. Relations describe some connection between two entities, such as a comparison. We’ll denote a relation between two entities A and B as A:B. A relational similarity between two groups A, B and C,D will [...]
While browsing my various photo albums (all of them digital) for a proper head shot of myself, I was struck by my complete absence. I make appearances so rarely, it’s like I don’t exist in the photo history of my life. I’m always the cameraman. Really, I have so few pictures of myself throughout my [...]
Willow Nervosa
Posted: 22 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: dogs, mulberries, separation anxiety, trees, windows
Willow gets nervous when Donna leaves. She watches her like a hawk through the window until she disappears from sight. Today I decided to take a picture of this, which meant opening the screen as well as the window. However, Willow started getting a little too “jumpy” and I had to tug her away from [...]
Some related thoughts on intelligence
Posted: 22 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: distractions, genius, hard work, intelligence
I need these all in one place: Distractions make you dumb The Myth of Multitasking Research stamina Genius, Sustained Effort, and Passion How to become smarter How to be a genius Does one have to be a genius to do maths? Google makes us stupid [Added 2008-06-24] It’s no coincidence a lot of that originated [...]
Does NACLO need a better name?
Posted: 22 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, high school, language, linguistics, logic, NACLO, outreach, problem solving
The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad is an annual competition open to US high school students that introduces kids to computational linguistics at a much younger age than people normally hear about it. I didn’t hear about CL until I was three years into my undergrad program. The instant I did hear about it, I [...]
Hakia Semantic Search API
Posted: 21 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, hakia, information retrieval, semantic search, semantic web, startups, techcrunch, text summarization
If you follow news on the semantic web or new search engines, you may have heard of hakia. TechCrunch has done a small write up about their new semantic search API. TechCrunch is brutally hard on startups who aren’t fully operational, so there is a lot of criticism in that article that I take with [...]
This post contains no spoilers. I rewatched Primer this week. I had seen it a couple years ago as one of the first movies I got from Netflix the first time I signed up. It was a successful recommendation. Since I was a kid, I have been totally intrigued with time travel and time travel [...]
