Thanks for the pep talk, I slept on it and feel much better this morning :). Failure is inevitable, and even good sometimes! I've learned a lot from my failed experiments over the last couple of months and am ready to tackle the problems with them.
Haha I know right?? I always notice your username :)
This is awesome! I want in :)
I have Dropbox, Box, and multiple 1TB external hard drives. I'm totally not paranoid!
I'm listening to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami on audiobook. I never listen to audiobooks, but the narrator for this one is really great and I love me some Murakami! The one annoying thing is that it's taking forever for me to get through since I read so much faster than speaking rate. I'm also reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I love the story and the execution for the most part, but his writing is just slightly too pretentious for me.
I'll still always pronounce your username as "klein-blow" in my head...
Listening to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. Loving it so far! Also reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
I actually just did this a couple months ago! I usually would have one cup of coffee a day, in the morning. When I quit I just powered through the withdrawal headaches -- they were only bad for the first week or so. I actually haven't noticed much of a significant drop in energy since then! I drink herbal tea in the morning now, maybe I'm just getting a placebo effect from any hot drink...
Funny because today I just so happened to take a picture of the now dead trees on the river!
No, it's humans reading sentences. There's just an insane amount of variability once you get into cognitive research....just one of those days where I lose all my faith in science :(
Lots of work....I'm starting three new projects, so there's a lot of background reading/work there. Plus I'm submitting a project to a conference in 11 days, so I'm working like mad to get a quick second experiment up and running on the web in the next couple days! If any of you use Amazon Mechanical Turk, you should totally do my study ;) Unrelated side note, I've been obsessed with Sibelius these last couple days.
Stephen King's new short story collection comes out tomorrow! Anxiously awaiting for its arrival in the mail!!!! I'll edit in my first impressions tomorrow evening. In the meantime, still chipping away at Les Miserables. EDIT: Sadly it didn't arrive until last night! Since then though, I've devoured the first half of the stories. Here's my verdict: The one "horror" story (Mile 81) wasn't great. It was really heavy-handed and then ended abruptly. The ending was pretty meh, it's similar to his earlier endings which are all pretty bad. The Dune was fantastic and is one of the most King-esque stories in the collection. Premium Harmony is a drastic departure than his usual style, but is really great. Ur is another standout, but it's actually been published before (just not in a collection), so I'm not really counting it as "new".
Cool! Yay for Halloween babies :) there are like 3 other people in my family who were also born on Halloween, it's really bizarre...
Wow. Just wow. “What rules of evidence apply?” one arbitration firm asks in the question and answer section of its website. “The short answer is none.”
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application deadline is tomorrow, so the story of my life this past week is the endless cycle of revising, sending to my advisor, revising, sending to my advisor, etc etc. We decided to radically change the research proposal at the last minute so I've been sort of scrambling. But it's turning out really great, and I'm feeling really good about it! I got an Honorable Mention last year, and in my opinion my materials are much better this year so I'm hopeful. Wish me luck!!!
Such an amazing book. That's the one scene that's always stuck with me. It really evokes a visceral feeling of horror as it slowly dawns on you what's going on...
Les Miserables! I've been chugging along slowly here and there for the last few months. 500 pages in, less than 800 to go!
What a silly question. There are many tools in a modeler's toolbox, and you should use the one that's most appropriate for your system at the granularity of interest...
Tolkien is a master storyteller! Regardless of whether you end up liking LOTR, you should also read the Silmarillion (it's very different).
Yeah it really depends on your taste. I find the Silmarillion much more enjoyable than LOTR actually! It's a very different style.
Fuck western NY right now :'( Edit: I amend my earlier statement. The clouds got out of the way and I was able to see the moon coming back out, it was so gorgeous! And I saw a shooting star right under the moon. Perfect night :D
Because I just barely broke up with my boyfriend and it's probably not a good idea to start dating someone that I'm going to be around constantly for the next 5 years :/
so overwhelmed by work Also I'm starting to develop a crush on this guy in my year :(
Yup they're all playing together on Saturday! And randomly with a band from my hometown as well! Meet at Night and Impossible are my second and third favorite tracks :)
Thanks :) weirdly enough today was actually a great day. I was really in the zone so even though I had a bunch of classwork I also had time to think about research and make some concrete, achievable goals for the next few days. The little victories are awesome!
The Dark Tower series is great!! It's definitely not representative of SK's works though.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing!! If anyone is more interested in information theory in language more generally, I highly highly recommend Aylett & Turk 2004, Levy 2008, Jaeger 2010 and for narrower topics Smith & Levy 2013 and Jaeger & Snider 2013.
Super fun so far!! I'm just here in Malta for a conference so I don't get to spend a ton of time exploring, but I went to the beach today and it's soooo gorgeous.
Yep :(
You're definitely a budding linguist... :D