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A song on parsing
via Misc Research Stuff by Delip Rao on February 13, 2008
We all know Jason's love for parsing from his work but it takes a different level of dedication to write a Valentine's Day song about parsing.As Jason says, "Parsers just want to be appreciated, like everyone else."
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I Heart the ISS: Ten Reasons to Love the International Space Station
via Universe Today by Nancy Atkinson on February 13, 2008
It’s been called a white elephant, an orbital turkey, a money pit, and an expensive erector set. Seemingly, even many people at NASA think building it was a mistake. The International Space Station has been plagued with repeated delays, cost overruns, and bad press. Additionally, the ISS has never really caught the fancy of the general public and most likely there’s a fair percentage of...
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Excellent Overview of Functional Programming
via Code Commit by Daniel Spiewak on February 13, 2008
... a long time now, but I’ve never seen so many supporting arguments thrown into a single batch. For those of you still skeptical about the benefits of writing side-effect-less code in Scala, this article is for you.So grab yourself a cup of coffee and a box of donuts (it’ll take you about that long to finish the article), and slog your way through. Trust me, it’s worth the effort.
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Fancy Corpus Search Tool
via The Lousy Linguist by Chris on February 14, 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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So where does this leave me?
via Where's My Stapler? by WMS on February 17, 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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How is Seam Carving like Latent Semantic Indexing?
via david petar novakovic: attempted axiomatisation by dpn on February 19, 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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Help map your light pollution with GLOBE at Night
via Bad Astronomy Blog by The Bad Astronomer on February 24, 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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Introducing Game Theory
via Good Math, Bad Math by (author unknown) on March 19, 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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Is English more efficient than Chinese after all?
via Language Log by Mark Liberman on April 27, 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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