Do the ski gloves fit?

Admire The Minimalist Mark Bittman, for the range and stripped bare minimalism of the recipes, for the super-comic videopods with their ever evolving titles sequence. I was to feature him in my links list and found — surprise surprise — he had stolen one of my recipes (where “stolen” means “o my god, he made a video of that, I do it all the time!”). Now I’m not saying it’s the wheatberries & scallions one (except that I go with oatmeal), because you’ll figure what I have for brisk breakfast on quick days when I’m all thumping energetic.

A part of his charm is the city kid in a kitchen simplicity of the recipes, and the gritty this is so good I can’t mess up even if I try attitude. Beyond that I have no idea why his podcasts interest me more than movie trailers. (Speaking of trailers, who’s this guy doing the gruffy voiceover in *all* of them? — That guy deserves the mallet — I’m so sick of him, good movies are good in spite of him, and movies that avoid him are good by default.)

Breakfast
* Oatmeal, onions, salt, water
* Bagel, creamcheese, bellpepper, mushrooms
* Oatmeal, frozen fruit, munkha & nuts, yogurt/milk

Recipes
* Zuke & Bellpepper
* Zuke & muchroom pasta
* Soy & wheat flour pudding/rice pudding

1. Tools
   • NLTK
   • Python
   • HTK
   • CSLUK
   • Matlab Auditory Demonstrations
   • Applied Parallel Computing (SMA 5505) Spring 2005
   • Pervasive Human Centric Computing (SMA 5508) Spring 2006 (Python, device programming)
   • Automata, Computability, and Complexity Spring 2005
   • Computation Structures Fall 2002
2. Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Representation
   • AI Fall 2006
   • Probabilistic Systems and Applied Prob
   • Techniques in AI
   • 6.034 Artificial Intelligence Spring 2005
   • Minds and Machines Spring 2007
   • Theory of Knowledge Fall 2003
   • Decisions, Games, and Rational Choice Spring 2008
   • Logic I Fall 2005
   • Logic II Spring 2004
3. Acoustics
   • Acoustics of Speech and Hearing
   • Speech Communication
   • The Human Intelligence Enterprise Spring 2002
   • The Human Intelligence Enterprise Spring 2006
   • Computational Cognitive Science Fall 2004
4. Computational Linguistics
   • Introduction to Philosophy of Language Spring 2006
   • Introduction to Philosophy of Language Spring 2005
   • Advanced Natural Language Processing
   • Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge
   • Language Processing Fall 2004
   • Language Acquisition I, Spring 2002
   • Introduction to Syntax Fall 2003
   • Advanced Syntax Spring 2007
   • Argument Structure and Syntax Spring 2003
   • Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory Fall 2006
   • Syntactic Models, Spring 2006
   • Advanced Semantics Spring 2005
   • Topics in Semantics Fall 2002
   • Psycholinguistics Spring 2005
   • The Linguistic Study of Bilingualism
   • Introduction to Linguistics Spring 2005
   • Introduction to Linguistics Spring 2004
   • Language and its Structure I: Phonology Fall 2002
   • Language and its Structure II: Syntax Fall 2003
   • Language and its Structure III: Semantics and Pragmatics
5. Experimental Linguistics & Psycholinguistics
   • Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI
   • Linguistic Phonetics Fall 2005
   • Introduction to Phonology Fall 2002
   • Topics in Linguistic Theory: Laboratory Phonology Spring 2007
   • Topics in Linguistics Theory Spring 2003
6. Philosophy
   • Topics in Philosophy of Language: Vagueness Fall 2005
   • Topics in Theory of Knowledge: A Priori Knowledge Spring 2005
   • Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study Spring 2004
7. Language-based Linguistics (as opposed to Concept-based)
   • Language Acquisition Fall 2001
   • opics in Linguistics: Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities Spring 2004
   • Linguistic Theory and the Japanese Language Fall 2004
   • Special Topics in Linguistics: Genericity Spring 2007
   • Grammar of a Less Familiar Language (Kurdish) Spring 2003
8. Compilers/PL
   • Multithreaded parallelism Languages and Compilers
   • Building Programming Experience: A Lead-In to 6.001
   • Computer Language Engineering

• Speech Communication
• IEEE TASP
• IEEE Speech and Language Tech Committee
• ICSI Berkeley Speech
• IEEE Sigproc Soc ICASSP etc.
• IWAENC
• SiSEC
• ICMLA
• IEEE Conferences

Just the place to be shot by a feisty SLR-with-diffuse-flash toting photographer, who is proud that she takes pictures that the USCIS just won’t refuse:

Copley Photo a.k.a. Matilde’s Photo & Framing
441 Stuart St
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 859-8922

Other options that tried with shadow-behind-my-ear results:

• USPS
• Ritz camera
• CVS

*pssst, the price is even less than USPS’!
cl: passport/visa/OPT

Yea, that’s the big Question: What’s your contribution to humanity?

There’s the ski gloves gig. It kills me to think that it’s not a contribution to anybody but myself whenever I do make it. Just because it can’t go into a hearing aid some day. Or on an android. Why would an android want it anyway? To communicate with human pals. That’s after my next contribution to myself: linguistic evolution in a petridish of core2quads.

Why it kills me is not because I’m unsure whether it can get into hearing aids some day; but rather that it is not elegant. It’s like solving the problem without actually solving it. A muP dedicated to separating out speech? Give me a break. So the reason it kills me is this: I don’t have a silver bullet. I didn’t do the Sherlock Holmes act. Or the ICA act. I never had the “aha” moment. Except in tzvi’s class, or prakash’s class, or mike, or karl or naveen or …

Yea, that’s right. A contribution to humanity is either an aha moment, or nothing. (In technology at least. Outside of technology, of course, we expect you to make your contribution to the world around you.)

I could write articles for wikipedia too, that’s not much of an aha, but you bet it’s a contribution.

Or label some places on wikimapia, yea, your paternal village and your maternal village and wherever you’ve been.

Or post pictures on mustseeindia.com, lol, hey, rana never paid me to publicize it! Of course, we don’t want to see you, you or you in front of the mona lisa, gawddd, we dont’ want to see even mona lisa herself. So post pictures for places that need the exposure.

Or set up an enterprise. It’s a line of thought, you see.

But I tell you, I’m just living for that one nasty aha moment. Something like “we know the pitch is throwing a spanner in the works, I’ve got a way to take the spanner and bolt the works tight.”

Movie reminders
CineDelica

The title refers to the famous Rohtak cinema hall Sheela Talkies

ma568 Project
Colburn 747
Jaakkolla OCW
Autonlab tutorials
Strang Linear Algebra
Python cocktail party testbench
Bash Advanced Scripting Guide review
R scripts for seqnl stats
Kreyszig
Stroustrup

a8-12
midterm
decorrelation/projection on eigen vectors of covariance matrix
F/S/Z transforms review

capacity of channel with given restriction on power and distortion

XOR distortion(x, y, xhat) = x (xor) y (xor) xhat
Determine capacity for various values of distortion

Power allocation P=P_1+P_2 for two Gaussian sources (variance sigma_i) conveyed over channels with AWGN (variance n_i).

EM and ML
McLaughlin
Rabiner: Tutorial on HMMs
Dempster: EM and applications
CR Rao: Maximum Likelihood
Erich Lehmann: Statistical Inference

Problem sets

ch 6-14
Kernel Trick from PRML
F-statistic
Lagrange multipliers
Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
Geometry and algebra related to projections (linear algebra)
canonical correlation
IEEE splines
calculus of variations
approximate inference
projection pursuit
OCW: basic inequalities and statistical tests
Fisher info
finance project

ICA, boosted trees, random forests,

monkey typewriter
pdfs