Archive for June, 2009

Real live skeptics!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

I was out to supper last night (in Boulder, where I still am), and having discussed skepticism the previous night, the guy I was with pointed to another table where a few people were sitting and two of whom were wearing SkeptiCamp shirts. It was quite refreshing to see skeptics out in the real world [...]

NAACL HLT 2009 impressions

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

So NAACL is just finishing up (I’m at CoNLL tomorrow and the day after). This was the first time I’ve been to a big conference (well, any conference) and it was different from what I expected, but mainly only because of one thing: presenters suck. In order for a presentation to be good, a variety [...]