If you take quiz #1, and some of your numeric scores are counted wrong, and you think your answer was right anyway, don’t despair: just wait until next week when we work them out. I’ve already had a student who (1) discovered two of my own answers were wrong, and (2) entered one of their…

Quite a few people have been asking questions about homework 2, and I’m not sure some of them realized that I had a hints page, and even a walk-through page. So, for these reasons and others, I’m going to further extend homework #2’s due date by 24 hours. It’s now due Saturday, Sept 27th at…

I would like your corpus, or some subset thereof, in order to test your homework #2 and future homeworks this semester. This is potentially problematic because of the sizes involved. So please follow these instructions: Find out how big your corpus is. (On Linux, you can type “ls -lh nameOfYourCorpusFile” and look near the middle…

As you can tell from the readings page, we’re “behind” where I thought we’d be right now in terms of content. This is not a problem (our course is not the upstream prereq for any other, so there’s no fixed content we have to get through) but I thought I’d let you know that I’m…

Inspired by class today… For +1XP: find a website that has both the words jedi and hangover (or hungover) not more than 10 words apart. Caveat: the page you send me must not be the same as the page anybody else has already sent me (otherwise I’ll give you another change). For +2XP: find me…

Because I’m cool.

The hopefully at least somewhat helpful demo_torch.py file we worked through in class on Tuesday has been posted in the team repo. As always, the right way to work with this is to pull from the repo after originally having cloned it directly from github.

I’ve had a lot of smart and ambitious students doing cool things with their N-gram models, and getting stuck pursuing a couple of well-intentioned rabbit trails, so I’m going to give everyone til the end of the week to submit homework #2.

Quiz #1 has been posted to Canvas, and is due Friday the 26th at midnight. This quiz is timed generously at 90 minutes, is open-book, open-notes, open-four-function-calculator, closed-Python, and must be completed entirely on your own, with no help from others.

Students found Emily Dickinson’s to be… Homework #1 has finally been graded and is on the scoreboard. Great job on these! And congrats to those who have reached new levels: Samuel Langhorn Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) was one of the greatest writers in American history, and a potent 19th-century public figure and celebrity. Ernest Hemingway…