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Joke of the Day
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 10:43 — alsmolaToday's lecture on machine translation and language bias reminded me of this chestnut:
What do you call someone who speaks multiple languages?
Multilingual
What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual
What do you call someone who speaks one language?
American
Rating widget: How do you rate?
Tue, 10/20/2009 - 23:13 — mikeThe course page for this class and ISSD incorporares a new feature since last week, which Bob announced through the class mailing list: A RatingSystem.
The rating system both makes sense for Bob to reinvent the class for next semester, and for us, if we don't have any time to focus on the most valuable readings. In order to set a good example, I started rating the readings I've done. And I suddenly found myself in a hard position to determine the way how I rate.
Kurt Vonnegut on indexes, bias
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 14:33 — fychengThe point about how every classification scheme is biased reminded me of this passage from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, on why you should never index your own book:
