A quick and dirty summarization algorithm for Spanish text

Modeling learning as a graph traversal

The challenge of world knowledge in artificial intelligence

Week of 20 April

Week of 14 April

Week of 6 April

Week of February 2

I explain a popular smoothing method applied to language models. The post describes Kneser-Ney as it applies to bigram language models and offers some intuition on why it works well.

Week of January 5

Week of December 29

Why do we give presents rather than cash? What is it that makes some gifts offensive and others lovely?

Week of December 22: In which the unplanned Hayekian immersion program continues

How do we manage the weight of our intellectual inheritance? An examination of the historical practice of writing during and after reading, and a suggested answer to that question.

Week of December 15, 2013. More economics, with a side of Lisp.