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Research update #3: RESULTS!!!!!11!…?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by nkrishna

I scienced all last weekend. Except for a few hours when my fiancée and I watched The Hobbit on DVD, I scienced almost nonstop, and I actually have something to show for it.

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An infidel watches the History Channel’s “The Bible”

Posted on March 18, 2013 by nkrishna

Count me among the nonbelievers. Now an atheist, I was raised a kind of vaguely-observant Hindu in a place where Christianity was shoved down your throat nearly 24/7. Needless to say, my sympathy for Christian thought these days is anemic … Continue reading →

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Like God, the “God Particle” could destroy the universe

Posted on March 14, 2013 by nkrishna

Unlike God, the Higgs Boson is probably real.

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Rand Paul snaps, gets snapped

Posted on March 6, 2013 by nkrishna

Rand Paul. The very name reeks of evil and/or right wing nuttery. Rand Paul strikes me as the slower-witted, less-principled son of Ron Paul, and I’m going to go ahead and say that’s because he is. But this happened. The … Continue reading →

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Research update #2 and the Softest Hard Science

Posted on February 24, 2013 by nkrishna

I’m writing an annotation specification. If that sounds really tedious and science-y, it probably is, but I think that when most people think “linguistics,” the first free-association word isn’t “science.” But depending on how you look at it, linguistics is … Continue reading →

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Holy crap, I want to work on this!

Posted on February 14, 2013 by nkrishna

UC Berkley is welding two of my linguistic loves: large amounts of data and dead languages. I have to try and bring this kind of thing to Brandeis. We love large amounts of properly formatted data. I’ve always had a … Continue reading →

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Trouble Poping

Posted on February 11, 2013 by nkrishna

For the first time in almost 600 years*, the Pope is stepping down. Apparently, he thinks he’s getting old. I knew all that Force lightning would take its toll.

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Research update #1

Posted on February 5, 2013 by nkrishna

I’ve been lucky this semester. Although I’m enrolled in three courses, all the work in those courses rolls into my thesis somehow. In essence, I’ve managed to talk my way into having just one very large assignment due at the … Continue reading →

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Sexist pronouns

Posted on February 3, 2013 by nkrishna

There’s a problem with English.  Okay, there are lots of problems with English, from a spelling system that hasn’t been made sense since the 15th century to an undue love of Latin grammatical standards in a language that wasn’t made … Continue reading →

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Hapax Legomenon

Posted on January 26, 2013 by nkrishna

A hapax legomenon (Greek: “what is said once”) is a word that appears only a single time in a given context, be it a single document, the complete works of an author, or the written record of an entire language.  You usually don’t … Continue reading →

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