I was so proud of my newly-efficient navigation skills in Paris, only to be foiled in my attempt to get home from the library for the 3rd time in a row :(
I love my NY grid. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been a Programmer Analyst in several former jobs, and I always thought of that as a silly title. That’s two titles, mushed together, right? Well, I finally figured it out – of course what this really means is that I’m qualified to interpret the dreams of programmers. Read the rest of this entry »
One thing I love about Paris, where I’m living for a few months, is my ability to get lost just about anywhere. I lose my sense of direction, do not recognize street names, and walk in all sorts of round-about paths (apart from some places in Central Park and the West Village, that is very difficult to do in NYC!). Read the rest of this entry »
Looking around at the gadgets that are most crucial to my livelihood and happiness, including my lovely Thinkpad X301, magical (I don’t want to understand how the e-ink works) Kindle, functional pink Blackberry Curve, and second-generation (i.e., old) iPod Nano, I find myself stunned to realize that only the last product was made by Apple. Read the rest of this entry »
Fun? Really?
Yup.
Isn’t it for those fancy computational linguistics guys?
NLTK is pretty fancy, but it is also very accessible and useful for curious newcomers. Think: low floor high ceiling, just like Python itself.
Are you an NLP/NLTK expert?
Nope. This is my public service announcement to let you know that non-experts can use it. Read the rest of this entry »
“How does a computer understand languages if it’s not a human being?”
I wish I had a recording of my 5-year old nephew asking me that question, after I had quickly explained to him that there are languages that people use to communicate with computers. I had visited Patrick that day to show him Scratch, the “programming language for everyone” from the MIT Media Lab. He’s younger than the target demographic, which is 8 and above, but I was curious to see what he’d say as we looked at it together. Read the rest of this entry »
At Twitterers Anonymous, they encourage us to maintain a backlog of tweets so that we don’t feel tempted to sign up again. My sponsor, who once had so many followers that it got to his head, told me to never, never publish my backlog. I hope he doesn’t read this. Read the rest of this entry »
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