miscellous

Got a full package of TA for long distance education today. Feel excited of getting a lot of new books, remind me of middle school times when new semester begins. Love the smell of the book. :) Gonna join the tutorial workshop for WebCT tomorrow. Inspire me of the dream for the education , language and technology again.... Maybe study how best to convey the science knowledge to kids? :P

Everything can become a university learning ... :-)
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/

rain and some other...

Raining twice in such a sunny weather in 3 days.

ASB10810:
The cloud is heavily formed at that moment, so she has to leave in the middle, to avoid anybody to get wet. But still the seaweed was damp at that moment. This observation state make people sending email and showing the care. The day turns into sunshine very soon. Although she felt exhausted of rushing, the thirsty plants welcome the rain happily.... Symbol for a new period?

LRH:
Sometimes people will feel more sympathetic to things that are bad which suddenly turn to good, than the thing which is always good. Recall one line "The pure innocent is stupid, but the innocent on top of the sophisticated is more precious..." ---- "A world without thief"

"Have you sung before? " , this is much more than a flattery to her.

Some suggestions from a friend seeing relationship of singles.
1. Do not look for a husband/wife on the first sight.
2. Abandon conservative attitudes by not worrying what anyone else thinks
3. Tease men for fun.

Good news, bad news, no news...

Good news: Talked tonight with karen, know she got the offer from Microsoft. I know this offer has lots of stayup nights from her undergrade life...
Then got the news from zhongmin that his paper was accepted by a journal. I know how hard and efficient he works everyday...
Got the tel from Yi(from LA on a business trip) yesterday, heard about her life, her feeling and her caring bf. Really good that she finally step on the land of US. But I know how she struggles all through the way.
Got the email from Irene, she's finally peace home now. This lucky cat :) But I will have nobody to walk home every night from now on. :( When something become a habit, it is hard to break.

Bad news: Gathering the danotion for the past few weeks, but suddenly got the email from James yesterday, inviting me to his wife's funeral. Really sad, yudong even cried , when she heard that. The beautiful girl who is the similar age of us, just start blossoming, but the cancer has ...... Life is vulnerable and precious.

No news: Moi, for a long time... Striving.-.-.---.

Finished the french exam today, but just start french learning... Really amazed by the music and movie of French. That's my biggest achievement from learning French.

Life is still not quite balanced as expected. Still had the feeling of overwhelmed everyday. Research is going very slow. Feeling guity again. :( Maybe too much interest = too many extractions... To make living and live a life at the same time is NP-hard.

Some dew collection: www.piaoyao.org Good window.
http://www.yourblog.org/Blogger/20045/CKXP_23947.html

Sentences Completion---- fool testing

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/psych275/Barnum Stems.html
Did this sentence completion test, feeling they are amazingly accurate. Just can not believe which NLP techniques they are using to understand the language so well. ??? Also , seems I am still a blue-green mixed people. :P

1. When Chris became very angry, he...
is shouting and hit some soft things, say pillow or big toy

2. After receiving acceptance at her first choice college, Joan...
is very excited, phone her family and close friends immediately, she want to share the news with people she love.

3. After the breakup of their relationship....
she felt depressed for a period, but then think she could find better guys in the future

4. One true thing about good friends is...
making me feel relaxed and open, and always want to share.

Analysis:::
133. Prides self on being an independent thinker; does not accept others' opinions without satisfactory proof.

342. Prefers a certain amount of change and variety; becomes dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.

345. Ambitious; strives to achieve, particularly in academic or intellectual domains. Although some aspirations tend to be unrealistic, client appears to be cheerfully aware of this possibility.

402. Tends to be more emotional on the inside than he or she discloses to others--even to fairly close friends and family.

407. Not a consistent extravert. Although affable and sociable in many circumstances, is occasionally reserved, wary, or "shy" in novel or unfamiliar social contexts. Sometimes prefers solitude--while at the same time feeling apologetic about that preference.

567. Has a tendency to be self-critical; sometimes has doubts as to whether he or she has made the right decision or done the right thing.

604. Has a great deal of unused capacity which has not yet been turned to full advantage.

607. Generally able to compensate for any weaknesses in personality.

841. Strong need to be liked by other people. Consciously struggles to balance this need with the competing need to disagree with others or to challenge them on occasion.

930. Sexual adjustment well within normal range. On the other hand, sexual development appears "young" or "youthful," probably implying limited experience. Erotic and/or romantic thoughts occur or intrude on thinking even in nonsexual contexts and circumstances.

945. Not self-pitying. Does not "whine" even when fairly frustrated; anger more likely than whining under such circumstances--even if not overtly expressed.


Then find out that whatever I filled in there, they always have this resultttt..... seems this is the commonpersonality for most people. Haha, people are similar. ;)
So no need to admire their natural language understanding skills. :P White white lie. heee heee.

When Summarization meet Winterization=====April 1ST Day

Who said computing Scientist is boring :P Here is the computational linguists' way of celebration Fool's day ;))))

Jason's idea of a joke:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Unnatural Language
> Date: April 1, 2005 8:48:16 PM PST
> To: friends@allover.edu
> Subject: Unnatural Language Processing Workshop
> Reply-To: Unnatural Language
>
> First and Last Call for Papers (April 1, 2005)
>
> Frankly, NLP is just too hard, and unsupervised learning is getting
> itself into all kinds of trouble now that it's in its teens. Here in
> the heart of the Silicon Swamp, we're alarmed to find ourselves
> uttering random n-grams just for emphasis. It's time to treat the
> world
> to 99.9% accuracy. It's time to redefine the task. It's time for the
>
> 1st Workshop on Unnatural Language Processing
>
> Johns Hopkins University CLSP
>
> TALK ABSTRACTS of up to 1 page due by APRIL 30, 2005 to ulp@cs.jhu.edu.
> We will attempt to collect these in an online proceedings. As this is
> an electronic workshop, there is no time limit on the talks themselves,
> although there is also no guarantee that anyone will be within earshot.
>
> Self-invited talks (highest bidder)
> -----------------------------------
> Question Evasion: Lessons from the Loebner Prize Competition
> Understanding Abney's Exposition of Blum & Mitchell's Reinterpretation
> of the Yarowsky Algorithm
>
> Shared task
> -----------
>
> Zero-Sum Corpora: Destructive Mining of the Web
>
> Twenty teams. One Web. Three days.
> Are you computational linguist enough?
>
> Government panel
> ----------------
> Is Document Classification Easier on Classified Documents?
> Information Extraction: A Government and Binding Approach
> Anti-Discriminative Training
> A Sin Tax for Some Antics
> English Unzipfed: No Unigram Left Behind
>
> Suggested paper topics
> ----------------------
> (We hasten to assure you that our purported theme on punitive
> linguistics is merely a strategem to extract abstracts from you.
> You know that workshop organizers would never actually twist your arm
> in
> a way that might keep you from typing something. Thus, we concede that
> we would grudgingly salivate over any overly original work at all:
> i.e., topics that have never been addressed before, and for good
> reason.)
>
> * Scaling Down: From Universal Grammar to Galactic Grammar
> * Corpse Linguistics (transducer decomposition, final states,
> the ultimate epsilon transition ...)
> * Doonerism Spetection
> * To Ken is at ion correct ion
> * Self-Reference and its Implications for This Workshop
> * Sentence Fragment Assembly and
> * Cataphora Resolution (see below)
> * Dynamic Time Warping (again)
> * When Summarization Meets Wintarization
> * Degenerative Grammar
> * The Phrenology-Phrenetics Interface
> * Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a.k.a. Machine-Assisted Charisma)
> * The New Irrationalist-Experientialist Debate
>
> Machine miseducation track:
> + Overbearingly Supervised Techniques for Very Small Corpora
> + Mixtures of Pundits, Worldly Bayes Classifiers, & other Sadistical
> Models
> + The Information Turtleneck Algorithm
> + Aping Syntax: Monkey c-command, Monkey do command
> + Support Vector Hotlines and Other Monologue Systems
> + Bootstrapping Without the Boot
>
> Program Committee (unconfirmed, indeed unwitting)
> -------------------------------------------------
> To preserve plausible deniability, we are adopting a triple-blind
> procedure in which the reviewers will not be known even to themselves.
> The most we can disclose here is that we will be noisily channeling
> Claude Shannon and other emanations grises.
>
> Sponsors
> --------
> We are grateful for moral support from the Notional Science
> Foundation, the Defense Advanced Delirium Agency (DADA), and
> the Linguistic Stipulation Consortium.