I've decided to drop a course - Structured Prediction for Language and Other Discrete Data. SPLODD, for short. (I once saw it spelled SPFLODD, and was confused about what the F-word was. Now I understand).
What?? Why?
Well, it's been OK, but the methods I'm seeing in class don't seem all that aligned to what I would expect really good language prediction methods to be like. By "really good", I mean the future, non-existent, actually semantically oriented methods that could exist in the future, not the current state-of-the-art stuff. But most importantly, I can feel that taking two courses that are so different as MLSP and SPLODD is splitting my focus into two tiny pieces of effectiveness, and that's even disregarding my search for an advisor, which has not still ended.
And thirdly, I have very little background on language processing. What I know is what my language teacher taught me in high school (though he did a really good job), and personal regexp-based web crawls that got me a DB of the english dictionary and a DB of country facts. And my chats extraction.
So, drop course it is. Well, that was easy. Done. So I DON'T have class in 21 minutes, and instead get to work on my MLSP homework. See? It's already working!!
Attentively,
Oni
What?? Why?
Well, it's been OK, but the methods I'm seeing in class don't seem all that aligned to what I would expect really good language prediction methods to be like. By "really good", I mean the future, non-existent, actually semantically oriented methods that could exist in the future, not the current state-of-the-art stuff. But most importantly, I can feel that taking two courses that are so different as MLSP and SPLODD is splitting my focus into two tiny pieces of effectiveness, and that's even disregarding my search for an advisor, which has not still ended.
And thirdly, I have very little background on language processing. What I know is what my language teacher taught me in high school (though he did a really good job), and personal regexp-based web crawls that got me a DB of the english dictionary and a DB of country facts. And my chats extraction.
So, drop course it is. Well, that was easy. Done. So I DON'T have class in 21 minutes, and instead get to work on my MLSP homework. See? It's already working!!
Attentively,
Oni
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