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Zealous Autoconfig
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 28, 2008
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Clinton resorts to anti-intellectualism
via Ian Clarke's Blog by ian on May 05, 2008
... wants to do something that experts, you know, the people who know what they are talking about, think isn’t such a great idea. “Oh, don’t listen to them, they’re just geeks, look - I can do shots and drink beer!”.Its unclear whether Clinton will get a bloody nose for this, after all, the media seems much more entertained by important issues like whether Obama wears a flag-pin.
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Will Republicans cause chaos in Indiana's Democratic primary?
via CNN Political Ticker by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart on May 06, 2008
Watch Query and Stacy discuss Indiana's Democratic primary. (CNN) – Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Indiana is a major test for three campaigns: Hillary Clinton’s Barack Obama’s — and Rush Limbaugh’s. Because many Republicans believe Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, has a better chance of beating Clinton in the general election, Limbaugh has [...]
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Is English more efficient than Chinese after all?
via Language Log by Mark Liberman on April 28, 2008
[Executive summary: Who knows?]This follows up on a series of earlier posts about the comparative efficiency — in terms of text size — of different languages (”One world, how many bytes?“, 8/5/2005; “Comparing communication efficiency across languages“, 4/4/2008; “Mailbag: comparative communication efficiency“, 4/5/2008). Hinrich Schütze wrote:I’m not sure we have interacted...
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Introducing Game Theory
via Good Math, Bad Math by (author unknown) on March 20, 2008
Lots of people wanted game theory, so game theory it is. The logical first question: what is game theory? Game theory is typical of math. What mathematicians like to do is reducethings to fundamental abstract structures or systems, and understand them interms of the abstraction. So game theory studies an abstraction of games - andbecause of the level of abstraction, it turns out be be applicable...
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Help map your light pollution with GLOBE at Night
via Bad Astronomy Blog by The Bad Astronomer on February 25, 2008
When you look at the constellation of Orion from your area, what do you see?This? Or this? Light pollution — unwanted light that goes up into the sky instead of illuminating the ground — has been steadily degrading our view of the sky for decades. Longer. As a civilization, we are less and less tuned to what’s happening in the sky, and it’s my feeling that this is one reason people fall...
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How is Seam Carving like Latent Semantic Indexing?
via david petar novakovic: attempted axiomatisation by dpn on February 20, 2008
In this post I’m going to do a quick overview of seam carving and how it looks just like dimensional reduction, an operation particularly useful in applications like search engines. If you are interested in Latent Semantic Analysis (or Latent Semantic Indexing), information retrieval, search engine optimisation or other related topics then you want to read on. If you don’t know what any of...
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So where does this leave me?
via Where's My Stapler? by WMS on February 18, 2008
I don't write in my journal much anymore. It used to be therapy for me. Maybe I'm not getting that therapy. It used to help me stay focused. Maybe I'm unfocused now. It was were I talked to God incessantly. I don't talk to God as much as I used to. It was were I wrote my dreams. I don't dream as much as I used to. And that's where I stopped. I don't dream as much as I...
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Fancy Corpus Search Tool
via The Lousy Linguist by Chris on February 15, 2008
I've only just now discovered the entirely online corpus search utility Sketch Engine by Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychlý, and Jan Pomikálek. It can replicate a lot of what I do with tgrep2 and Python scripts, but a lot faster (I mean, A LOT faster).It has the advantages of being fast, easy to use, covering corpora from multiple languages (plus allowing you to add new corpora) and providing...
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