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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 [...]

Remaining questions after the Battlestar Galactica series finale

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Boy, was that an interesting finale.  It wasn’t what I expected, and for a while I thought it was going to end kind of lamely, but that last minute or two at the very end really finished it off nicely. However, it was a bit of a cop-out because a number of things went unexplained.  [...]

Real live nuts

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I was on the bus today on my way to school when I overheard some (older) people talking.  One lady seemed to have mentioned bipolar disorder, to which the other responded “Yeah, it’s such bullshit, everyone has bipolar.”  They mentioned a few other things, such as how doctors use them as guinea pigs and how [...]

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