As promised, Homework #3 has been posted, and is due on October 17th at midnight. It is a play in two acts. Send questions! Also, I offer +5XP to anyone who finds a legit bug in my co-occurrence code or supporting programs and reports it! Only the first person who reports any specific bug gets…

I’ve pushed several files to the class repo, including two programs to help you visualize the embeddings in your corpus: interact_cooccur.py, which we played with in class on Tuesday, and visualize_cooccur.py, which can produce 2-d (and even 3-d) plots like this showing the embeddings in a reduced-dimensional space: The next homework assignment (coming soon) will…

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.