The first “real” (40XP-worth) homework has been posted, and is due at the stroke of midnight Sunday September 14th. All questions are welcome!

The code, corpus, and regex examples from today’s class have been posted. (Clone the class github repo if you want to do these things the right way.) The repo also contains the htmlstripper.py program which you can use and/or modify for whatever purposes you may desire, if useful.

I have posted a solution to the second reading check. Also, since numerous people came up after class and said they didn’t have enough time to reasonably finish, I’m going to (1) give at least 5 more minutes on future reading checks, and (2) double everybody’s score on this one.

Zerna Addis Sharp was the creator of the popular “Dick & Jane” picture books for kindergartners. Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a 19th-century English novelist who’s most famous today for writing some laughably bad text. (“It was a dark and stormy night” is one of the most well-known.) There’s even an annual contest put on by San…

If you’ve received an accommodation letter from the ODR, and sent it along to me, thank you very much. Let me be specific about how I will handle all of these: I fully intend to comply with all your accommodations, but I may need to be periodically reminded on a case by case basis. If…

I have posted a solution to the first reading check.

A student just asked an excellent math question about…. the material in allthemath.org Volume One (discrete math). Keep in mind that the reading checks this semester (including tomorrow’s) are on linear algebra (Volume Two on allthemath) not Volume One!

If you’re reading this, it’s high time you earned your first +1XP of the semester by registering on the class scoreboard! (Click on the “New NLP student” tab when you get there.) Be sure to choose a screen name that no one will be able to guess, and do not reveal it to anyone throughout…

Hark, most noble visitors! Ye are right welcome unto the fair Autumn of the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Five-and-Twenty, wherein is held the most wondrous course of DATA Four Hundred and Seventy — Natural Language Processing with Master Stephen! Verily, this humble web of sites shall anon be stuffed to bursting with…