killa_bee

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   by killa_bee 14y ago

   What is the "DT" mentioned in this article? I have no prior knowledge of that acronym.
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   by killa_bee 15y ago

   At the risk of being annoying, virtually all the research done in linguistics departments anywhere in the world is research in the cognitive science of language, so a social science, not a humanity. This certainly includes Berkeley around 1
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   by killa_bee 15y ago

   I use xelatex in my work and it's still embarassingly fragmented and outdated. We need to start over on a new TeX-like project (also so that it can be ported to mobile).
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   by killa_bee 15y ago

   People who think "going to college is for chumps" (and there are a lot of you on HN) should do this instead. It's not that hard to graduate college in 2-3 years.
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   by killa_bee 15y ago

   I'm not an expert on this, just a linguist who happens to code a lot, but there is some serious work on the complexity of frequency ordering. The algorithms proposed by R. Rivest (1976, Communications of the ACM) produce near-optimal freque
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   by killa_bee 15y ago

   I happen to know that they do this at the Linguistics Data Consortium ( http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ ), at least with cable news shows. They mostly do that to obtain data for languages with more minimal resources though, and for the purposes o
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   by killa_bee 15y ago

   sexist title (and the use of a COOKING METAPHOR for chrissakes). surely this is why there are so few women in computer science.
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   by killa_bee 15y ago

   this has been posted like ten times