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the opposite of seasonal affective disorder
My superpowers seem to be powered by sunlight.
I don't have to kick my research group in the pants: that's not my job. Will Byrd said it best: if it's a net loss of emotional energy to try to drag people into collaborating with me, then it's not worth it! There are other smart people out there; I'll find people to bother with ideas.
I spoke with Mike about how I was feeling, wrt the group, and he's been really supportive; I mentioned that I wanted to work more closely with him as well (he often writes papers where he's the only author, and I think by default his students work solo too), and since then, he's been cc'ing me on emails and talking more in terms of what we're doing instead of what he's doing, and what I'm doing.
So, good! Let's hack some hacks.
(I'm doing a pretty good job of pushing what I'm working on and thinking about onto the wiki: I think it's good for me. http://hackmode.org/wiki if you're interested. It's all public, but editable just by me.)
I don't have to kick my research group in the pants: that's not my job. Will Byrd said it best: if it's a net loss of emotional energy to try to drag people into collaborating with me, then it's not worth it! There are other smart people out there; I'll find people to bother with ideas.
I spoke with Mike about how I was feeling, wrt the group, and he's been really supportive; I mentioned that I wanted to work more closely with him as well (he often writes papers where he's the only author, and I think by default his students work solo too), and since then, he's been cc'ing me on emails and talking more in terms of what we're doing instead of what he's doing, and what I'm doing.
So, good! Let's hack some hacks.
(I'm doing a pretty good job of pushing what I'm working on and thinking about onto the wiki: I think it's good for me. http://hackmode.org/wiki if you're interested. It's all public, but editable just by me.)
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ThingsToLearn > You should just learn Joshua instead of Moses. I can give some pointers on Moses, but it's really a mess to work with; Joshua was born out of the desire to make Moses more usable... The only reason to learn Moses specifically is if you want to use the factored translation models (which, while great for hacks, unfortunately aren't a big win in terms of quality output).
ThingsToLearn > GibbsSampling > An important thing here is to compare Gibbs to other sampling methods like Metropolis--Hastings and MCMC. It's good to know when to sample, but it's also good to know when various samplers are better.
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