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Tasks
| C5 | C | Feature: Add a planner-tasks view that allows you to see all tasks whose pages match a regexp from Chat with dto on orwell.freenode.net%23emacs {{Tasks:712}} (PlannerModeCompletedTasks) |
| B1 | X | Take a sample TOEFL test (FurtherStudies) |
| B2 | X | Find out about the TOEFL (FurtherStudies) |
| B3 | X | Check the Internet for quickbooks (TaskPool) |
| B4 | C | Get salt and vinegar potato chips from Australia {{Tasks:994}} (TripToAuAndNz) |
Notes
5. Words to review for the GRE
| chary | cautious wary |
| cloture | closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting |
| coeval | of the same period coexisting |
| countervail | counterbalance |
| desuetude | cessation of use disuse |
| edacious | voracious devouring |
| encomium | warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric |
| epicurean | devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment) |
| expatiate | to roam wander freely |
| expiation | ending expiring |
| exscind | to cut out cut away |
| facetious | humorous funny jocular |
| finical | too fussy about food clothing etc. |
| foment | put smth warm (to lessen the pain) (i always thought of this as fomenting rebellion) |
| froward | intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn |
| fulmination | bitter protest |
| gaucherie | socially awkward tactless behavior |
| hermetic | sealed by fusion (don't think of mages) |
| imbroglio | complicated and embarrassing situation |
| inchoate | not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary |
| limn | paint portray |
| lucubrate | write in scholarly fashion |
| luculent | easily understood lucid clear |
| macerate | make or become soft by soaking in water |
| maladroit | tactless clumsy |
| minatory | menacing threatening |
| nostrum | a quack remedy an untested cure |
| nugatory | trifling/worthless |
| obloquy | abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation |
| odium | contempt dislike aversion |
| opprobrious | showing scorn or reproach |
| paean | song of praise or triumph |
| palliate | lessen the severity of |
| panegyric | formal praise eulogy |
| peccadillo | small sin small weakness in one's character |
| peregrination | traveling about wandering |
| picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers |
| piquant | agreeably pungent stimulating |
| probity | uprightness incorruptibility principle |
| prolix | tiring because too long |
| propinquity | nearness in time or place affinity of nature |
| provident | frugal looking to the future |
| puissance | strength |
| pusillanimous | cowardly craven |
| quotidian | banal everyday |
| raconteur | person who tells anecdotes |
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
| recondite | little known abstruse |
| recreancy | cowardice a cowardly giving up |
| refractory | stubborn unmanageable untractable |
| repine | at be discontented with |
| restive | refusing to move reluctant to be controlled |
| salubrious | healthful |
| salutary | remedial wholesome causing improvement |
| saturnine | gloomy dark sullen morose |
| sedulous | persevering |
| sententious | short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs |
| sere | make hard and without feeling |
| somatic | of the body |
| turpitude | wickedness shamefulness |
| tyro | tiro beginner |
| virago | a loud domineering woman a scold or nag |
| vitiate | lower the quality weaken the strength |
4. My schedule now
| M | CS21A-B | 8:30 | 9:30 | F-227 (lecture) |
| M | CS110-A | 10:30 |11:30 | CTC215 | |
| M | CS21A-G | 11:30 |12:30 | F-228 (mis) | |
| M | CS139.3 | 1:30 | 4:30 | | |
| W | CS21A-B | 8:30 | 9:30 | F-227 (lecture) |
| W | CS110-A | 10:30 |11:30 | CTC215 | |
| W | CS21A-G | 11:30 |12:30 | F-228 (mis) | |
| W | CS139.3 | 1:30 | 2:30 | . |
| F | CS21A-B | 7:30 | 9:30 | F-227 (lab) |
| F | CS110-A | 10:30 |11:30 | CTC215 | |
| F | CS21A-G | 11:30 |12:30 | F-228 (mis) | |
| F | CS139.3 | 1:30 | 2:30 | . |
| F | CS21A-A | 2:30 | 4:30 | F-227 (lab for Dr. Sarmenta) |
| T | CS110-B | 7:30 | 9:00 | F-227 |
| H | CS110-B | 7:30 | 9:00 | F-227 |
2. Thoughts on natural language processing and possible research
Wearable computing application: memory augmentation (personal information management, elderly)
problems facing wearable computing (re information extraction/retrieval):
- SPEECH-DRIVEN IMPLICIT QUERIES. A wearable computer can assist
human-human interaction by monitoring keywords in the conversation and suggesting relevant information, which will be presented in the background (visual, monophonic audio, spatially-located audio). A limited-vocabulary speaker-dependent speech engine recognizes names and keywords associated with personal information management while the wearer talks to other people. For example, the user might say, "Let me look at my schedule for Tuesday." The system will recognize "TUESDAY" and display a link for this Tuesday's schedule. The user can then key in further input or use structured voice commands to navigate through the data. To avoid confusion with the ongoing human-human conversation, human-computer interaction should be structured and clearly separate. (*Note*: I think I want to work on this for my PhD. Implicit queries for personal information management.)
- ONLINE INTERACTION, OFFLINE DICTATION. A wearable computer can be
used to record everything you say so that you can process it later. The speech stream from a directional microphone includes both dialogue with the wearable computer and dialogue with other entities. Online use involves limited-vocabulary speech recognition. The full speech stream can be stored on the hard disk and tagged on the fly with markers for later transcription using a large-vocabulary speech recognition engine. The post-processing of the text stream can be performed off-line and need not be real-time.
- EXPLICIT QUERIES: IR, TEXT SUMMARIZATION. Explicit information
retrieval with text summarization is necessary in order to deal with information overload. Both exact and fuzzy searches need to be supported. Topics may need to be mapped using an ontology in order to take advantage of communal knowledge or search through personal information. Output needs to be summarized; browsing through a webpage to find an answer is inefficient and requires too much attention. However, explicit queries against personal data stores cannot take advantage of the redundancy of the Web, and the wearable computer will need fuzzy search capabilities. (This is hard!)
1. Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century"
I don't understand most of this yet.
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