(b)logophile

(All feedback about this gratefully received, beginners or pros. Leave a comment.) Emacs (and its cousin XEmacs) are enormously powerful text editors. Not so great for writing letters to your grandma, but fantastic for editing programming languages or LaTeX. Problem is, they’re so powerful that it’s easy to get lost when you’re starting. Someone shows [...]

Well, not me per se, but my AI and computational linguistics training seems to have been overtaken by the march of progress. I refer to Androidal Systems, Inc., whose breakthrough processor “understands the meaning of language.” Yup, the meaning of language — these folk aren’t into understatement. Universal translation, that’s what they’ve cracked. And they [...]

At the instigation of Robin, I just joined eMusic. Grabbed an old Tom Waits album (Mule Variations), which I’m enjoying very much. I imagine this technology could be addictive… So if anyone is looking at eMusic, drop me a line for a referral link. I also signed up with Last.fm, if you’re using it drop [...]

I promise not to go grammar-Nazi here, although I expect in the coming months I’ll be posting more often on language (it’s the topic of my upcoming PhD study, after all). But I’ve just seen yet another articulate, carefully written and obviously proofread article talk about “loosing” (in this case, “loosing who we are”). And [...]