Archive for 24 January 2009

Computational Linguistics Blogs

Posted: 24 January 2009 in Uncategorized
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Since I started blogging almost a year and a half ago, I have been following many blogs. I managed to find some blogs dealing with computational linguistics and natural language processing, but they were few and far between. Since then, I’ve discovered quite a few NLP people that have entered the blagoblag. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the many that I follow.

Many of these bloggers post sporadically and even then only post about CL/NLP occasionally. I’ve tried to organize the list into those who post exclusively on CL/NLP (at least as far as I have followed them) and those who post sporadically on CL/NLP. I would fall into the latter, since I frequently blog about my dogs, regular computer science-y and programming stuff, and other rants. P.S. I group Information Retrieval in with CL/NLP here, but only the blogs I actually read. I’m sure there’s a bazillion I don’t.

If I’ve missed one+, please let me know. I’m always on the lookout. Ditto if you think I’ve miscategorized someone.  I’ve excluded a few that haven’t posted in a while.

Movie idea #7210

Posted: 24 January 2009 in Uncategorized
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The main character is a geeky computer programmer playing around with genetic algorithms.  He comes up with a representation that lets him evolve intelligent agents for market trading that become wildly successful.  He makes over a billion dollars in a very short period of time, like say, a week.  He shuts them down, in nervousness and excitement and faces a dilemma.

Do I destroy the agents and all record of their existence, my notes, etc, so that no one else can use this power for evil?

OR

Do I open source these bad boys and bring down the whole damn system?

Of course, either decision will make him the target of criminal organizations, big businesses, and the American government (but I repeat myself).  Feel free to throw in chase scenes, a plucky old hacker who helps him disappear off the grid, and a grizzled retired policeman who saves his life.  Oh and some hot chick who never paid him any attention before he was a billionaire, but really cared about him all along and he was too shy to see it.

Film studios, feel free to write this up and make your millions.  Just don’t forget to use my name, since my blog is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.