two things left!

OK! Wren winterkoninkje and Yin yourusername and I finished up our writeup for Mike's Class and mailed it in last night. And all the grading is done for the class that I TA'd!

So, left, I have the last computational linguistics homework. Given a treebank, we're training up a parser for German. I did most of the programming work already; now we just have to do the experiments and write everything up and make sure my team is all on the same page.

And the stats final is due Friday. Analyzing some datasets about prison terms and fuel consumption. Cheerful topics!

All of these classes have been pretty cool. I'm somewhat torn, though. I want to be done taking classes as soon as possible so I can spend more time getting interesting work done (moving towards graduating), and less time thrashing. On the other hand, I want to know more about stats and CL, and here I am, at a university, where they teach classes about those things. What an opportunity, right? And another masters or a phd minor might look pretty shiny on my wall.

I guess with the statistics, though, what I'm really interested in is knowing enough to apply it to interesting machine learning problems. This is roughly analogous to saying: I'm not into physics that much; I want to build airplanes.

I think it'll be OK :) For now, though -- let's parse that German!