Kenneth Steimel @ksteimel@scholar.social

#introductions Hey everyone. I am a PhD Student in Computational Linguistics. My main research interest is computational linguistics for under resourced languages. I am particularly interested in computational linguistics for Bantu languages because of the extremely complex morphology that they bring to the table.

I am also doing research in sentiment analysis on stance detection and irony/sarcasm detection. Most of my research is on machine learning approaches.

It feels like a summer night here (65 degrees and humid). Apparently two years ago, it was snowing though.

updating the keyboard/touchpad drivers on manjaro arm makes a world of difference.

It stops that behavior where the touchpad doesn't pick anything up unless your finger moves more than a quarter inch or so. That was getting really annoying when trying to do fine mouse movements.

Here's where the details are https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-flash-new-keyboard-touchpad-firmware-on-pinebook-pro/112366 .

Just as a warning, if you have the ansi keyboard, you need to connect an external keyboard todo the install.

Trying this weekly todo method I saw on someone's blog where you create a list of things that need to get done for the week and then you pull from that list to make a day-level todo list at the start of the day. I like the spirit but you're not supposed to add new things to the weekly list ( as a way to mitigate side tracking yourself) but I don't think I should take a week to get to someone's request for results, models, decisions etc.

What have you been listening to? I'm tired of my music and could use some new things to check out.

Swahili is really making it hard to determine when something is a verb and when it's a noun since infinitive verbs can both take nominal modifiers like relative clauses and objects.

Er wait, I guess that's like a lot of languages? Just seems difficult to make a hard distinction when UD requires one.

The gamecube was a powerpc chip? Fascinating.

Rewrote a script to generate synthetic sentences from python in julia to leverage the multithreaded stuff. Now I don't need to do it multithreaded because it finishes in 30 seconds anyways 🤷

Is a towel just a macro-fiber cloth?

Hopefully training with the averaged perceptron algorithm will take less time and still perform well when compared to lbfgs.

I just don't think <checks notes> 9 days is fast enough to finish tuning.

Okay I quite like nushell for day to day use. Haven't written a script yet.

This is by far the strangest git flag to me at the moment

git checkout --ours ../Anno/GlobalVoices.ken.sw.sample.conllu

I really love that blackberry hub lets me snooze emails until I get onto a certain wifi network or am at a certain location. The location thing is probably a battery killer but both are nice bc I can snooze work emails until I get to work.