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Unusual Words
A large list of unusual words.
dictionary  english  interesting  language  words 
may 2010 by jtth
Jakobson : The Functions of Language - Signo - Semiotics / Applied Semiotic Theories
Jakobson's model of the functions of language distinguishes six elements, or factors of communication, that are necessary for communication to occur: (1) context, (2) addresser (sender), (3) addressee (receiver), (4) contact, (5) common code and (6) message. Each factor is the focal point of a relation, or function, that operates between the message and the factor. The functions are the following, in order: (1) referential ("The Earth is round"), (2) emotive ("Yuck!"), (3) conative ("Come here"), (4) phatic ("Hello?"), (5) metalingual ("What do you mean by 'krill'?"), and (6) poetic ("Smurf"). When we analyze the functions of language for a given unit (such as a word, a text or an image), we specify to which class or type it belongs (e.g., a textual or pictorial genre), which functions are present/absent, and the characteristics of these functions, including the hierarchical relations and any other relations that may operate between them.
conversation  language  model 
january 2010 by jtth
anic - Project Hosting on Google Code
anic is the reference implementation compiler for the experimental, high-performance, statically-safe, fully implicitly parallel, object-oriented, general-purpose dataflow programming language ANI.

Portably written using the GNU toolchain, anic works on all of the popular operating systems, including *nix, Mac OS X, and Windows (via Cygwin).
dev  language  programming  cs 
january 2010 by jtth
tinkerpop's gremlin at master - GitHub
Gremlin is a Turing-complete, graph-based programming language developed in Java 1.6+ for key/value-pair multi-relational graphs known as property graphs. Gremlin makes extensive use of the XPath 1.0 language to support complex graph traversals. This language has applications in the areas of graph query, analysis, and manipulation.
programming  cs  language  graph 
january 2010 by jtth
The R programming language for programmers coming from other programming languages
I have written software professionally in perhaps a dozen programming languages, and the hardest language for me to learn has been R. The language is actually fairly simple, but it is unconventional. These notes are intended to make the language easier to learn for someone used to more commonly used languages such as C++, Java, Perl, etc.
manual  business  database  reference  howto  language  coding  intro  r  documentation  statistics  programming  tutorial  geek  stats  information  tutorials  notes  languages  math 
august 2009 by jtth
A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems
The letters you are now reading, while well adapted to the eye to be read, are so ill adapted to the hand to be written that schools teach longhand as an alternative to printing them. The more cursive longhand is easy to learn, but only about 10% faster than printing. Alternative handwriting systems offer 100% or better improvements in handwriting ease and speed. If you could spend the rest of your life taking notes or keeping a journal/diary while writing two or three times faster, then, gee, why not?
shorthand  handwriting  penmanship  alphabet  gregg  pitman  typography  writing  history  culture  education  communication  script  guide  misc  fun  interesting  language  calligraphy  info  code  howto  reference  lifehacks  systems  languages  productivity  article  learn 
august 2009 by jtth
call-with-current-continuation.org
CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the R5RS Scheme language standard, and includes many enhancements and extensions. CHICKEN runs on Linux, MacOS X, Windows, and many Unix flavours.
software  mac  programming  tools  computer  osx  development  hacking  code  language  freeware  scheme  coding  scripting  lisp  lambda  chicken  compiler  languages  functional  c++  dev  c  portable  compilers  implementation  continuations  interpreter  continuation  parser 
august 2009 by jtth
Snowball
Snowball is a language in which stemming algorithms can be easily represented. The Snowball compiler translates a Snowball script (a .sbl file) into either a thread-safe ANSI C program or a Java program. For ANSI C, each Snowball script produces a program file and corresponding header file (with .c and .h extensions). The language has a full manual, and the various stemming scripts act as example programs.
software  development  free  library  research  tools  programming  python  ai  search  tool  language  java  algorithms  linguistics  text  algorithm  c  nlp  searchengine  classification  ir  stem  porter  stemmer  stemming  stopwords  lucene  textmining  snowball 
july 2009 by jtth
WordNet - About WordNet
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
reference  tools  research  software  opensource  search  free  writing  ai  language  data  english  academic  analysis  database  linguistics  semantic  words  nlp  dictionary  word  semanticweb  ontology  semantics  wordnet  thesaurus  lexical  lexicon  synonyms  dictionaries 
july 2009 by jtth
You should follow me on Twitter | Dustin Curtis
I actually tried many more permutations than I show here. I only discuss the most interesting ones below and describe my thought process along the way.
blog  web  design  psychology  articles  writing  webdesign  ui  usability  blogging  data  inspiration  language  statistics  communication  optimization  marketing  conversion  testing  twitter  persuasion  copywriting  socialmedia  action  ux  clickthrough  abtesting  measurement  calltoaction  wording 
july 2009 by jtth
Nasslli Home Page -- www.nasslli.com
The fourth NASSLLI (after previous editions at Stanford University, Indiana University, and UCLA) will return to Bloomington, Indiana, June 21 - 25, 2010. The summer school, loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series in Europe, will consist of a number of courses and workshops, selected on the basis of the proposals. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes on each of five days.
language  logic  computation 
june 2009 by jtth
NLTK Home ‎(Natural Language Toolkit)‎
Open source Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing, supporting dozens of NLP tasks, with distributions for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
software  tools  programming  language  opensource  python  nlp  linguistics  toolkit 
may 2009 by jtth
The Scala Programming Language
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive. Code sizes are typically reduced by a factor of two to three when compared to an equivalent Java application.
software  programming  development  language  languages  functional  java  opensource  jvm  scala 
april 2009 by jtth
CensorZilla
When we created mozilla.org and released (most of) the source code to Netscape Confusicator 4.x, Netscape's lawyers made us go through a big "sanitization" process on the source code. Largely this consisted of making sure we had the legal rights to all the code we were releasing, and making sure every file had proper and accurate copyright statements; but they also made us take out all the dirty words. Specifically, "any text containing vulgar or offensive words or expressions; any text that might be slanderous or libelous to individuals and/or institutions."
software  programming  blog  web  fun  funny  humor  internet  history  hacks  Geek  tech  work  code  language  blogs  java  humour  source  coding  firefox  browser  api  people  C  C++  process  mozilla  censor  netscape 
january 2009 by jtth
C++ FQA Lite: Defective C++
This page summarizes the major defects of the C++ programming language (listing all minor quirks would take eternity). To be fair, some of the items by themselves could be design choices, not bugs. For example, a programming language doesn't have to provide garbage collection. It's the combination of the things that makes them all problematic. For example, the lack of garbage collection makes C++ exceptions and operator overloading inherently defective. Therefore, the problems are not listed in the order of "importance" (which is subjective anyway - different people are hit the hardest by different problems). Instead, most defects are followed by one of their complementary defects, so that when a defect causes a problem, the next defect in the list makes it worse.
article  reference  design  programming  computer  humor  development  hacking  code  language  humour  coding  Languages  C++  debate  faq  dev  defective  criticism  fqa  rant 
december 2008 by jtth
C++ Notes: Table of Contents
Some of these supplemental notes are good, others only rough drafts or half-completed. Because they are designed only to provide additional examples, summaries, or explanations where the textbook is weak, they do not cover many obviously important topics. You can download a zipped version: notes-cpp-2004-12-19.zip [less than 400 KB]. -- Fred
C  C++  example  notes  Languages  tutorials  Performance  programming  computerscience  language  tutorial  guide  development  reference  howto  learning  coding  algorithms  cheatsheet  beginner 
september 2008 by jtth
PARI/GP Development Headquarters
PARI/GP is a widely used computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory (factorizations, algebraic number theory, elliptic curves...), but also contains a large number of other useful functions to compute with mathematical entities such as matrices, polynomials, power series, algebraic numbers etc., and a lot of transcendental functions. PARI is also available as a C library to allow for faster computations.
science  software  programming  computer  tools  linux  math  mathematics  opensource  education  development  language  library  academic  theory  number  system  calculator  algebra  C  cas  number_theory  pari-gp  gp  matematica  number-theory 
august 2008 by jtth
BBC NEWS | Health | Brain's counting skill 'built-in'
Humans have an in-built ability to do mathematics even if they do not have the language to express it, a research team has suggested.
science  psychology  neuroscience  research  brain  education  linguistics  english  mathematics  learning  language  bbc  2008 
august 2008 by jtth
InfoQ: Guy Steele on Programming Languages
Sun Fellow Guy Steele is interviewed by Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, and Bobby Norton of ThoughtWorks. Guy works for the Programming Language Research Group. The interview focuses on programming languages, the lessons to be learned from the past and what to expect from the future.
programming  video  java  language  interview  architecture  Languages  guysteele  development 
august 2008 by jtth
Garkov -- Garfield + Markov chains -- Josh Millard
arkov is an application of the Markov model to transcripts of old Garfield strips, plus some extra code to make it all look like a genuine comic strip. Feel free to screenshot and share Garkov output.
comic  funny  generator  humor  language  markov  probability 
june 2008 by jtth
Python-by-example
This guide aims to show examples of use of all Python Library Reference functions, methods and classes. At this point, only the more widely used modules were added and only functions use examples are given.
python  programming  reference  tutorial  examples  development  example  language  book  code  learning  learn 
april 2008 by jtth
A List Apart: Articles: Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written
So what makes good copy good? Perhaps we can find out by considering what’s made the best of the best…the best.
writing  copywriting  marketing  business  advertising  alistapart  copy  language  theory  text  interesting  inspiration  grammar  Psychology  advice  ads  content  copywriter  creative  creativity  phrase  linguistics  linguistic  usability 
december 2007 by jtth
Processing 1.0 (BETA)
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is c
processing  programming  language  data  visualization 
november 2007 by jtth
[ wu :: riddles(intro) ]
WELCOME to [wu:riddles]! This is an archive of problems I've been collecting since the Spring of 2002. They come from many places, including word of mouth, college courses, books, and job interviews for hi-tech positions. Many are even written by members
puzzles  riddles  logic  math  games  fun  puzzle  technical  resources  mind  problem  problems  language  library  lists  gallery  enigma  computing  algorithms  brain  Geek  reference  mathematics 
september 2007 by jtth
SciPy -
SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific programming with Python.
academia  application  code  coding  compsci  computation  computer  computers  computing  cs  lab  graphing  graphic  graph  freeware  free  framework  extension  engineering  developer  language  libraries  library  math  mathematics  maths  matrix  modeling  number  numbers  open  open-source  opensource  optimization  oss  package  plot  programming  python  research  resources  science  scientific  visualization  work  scripting  software  source  statistic  statistics  stats  tutorials  tools 
september 2007 by jtth
Welcome to schemers.org!
'(schemers . org): an improper list of Scheme resources
code  development  functional  cs  computer  science  imported  language  link  lisp  programming  resource  scheme  website  Languages 
september 2007 by jtth
Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare
For many English-speakers, the following phrases are familiar enough to be considered common expressions, proverbs, and/or clichés. All of them seem to have originated with Shakespeare
neologism  word  words  english  language  linguistics  etymology  shakespeare 
june 2007 by jtth
A Basic Guide to ASL
This site contains a video library of common American Sign Language signs.
asl  sign  language  movie  video  collection  movies  videos  library 
april 2007 by jtth
Latin phrases used in English
A list of common Latin phrases translated into English, with examples.
latin  phrase  language  english  translation 
april 2007 by jtth
Non-Errors
Things that most people consider to be errors in English, but really aren't.
article  cool  read  creativity  reference  education  review  rules  english  fun  sociology  grammar  teaching  history  tips  howto  use  Words  humor  interesting  work  writing  language  list  literature 
august 2006 by jtth
Planet Scheme
Aggregated feeds from various scheme-centric blogs.
blog  blogs  cool  daily  computer  feeds  functional  language  lisp  news  programming  rss  scheme  lambda  planet 
january 2006 by jtth
LMA WLAC - Past Champions
Past Champions of the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship
art  auction  audio  awesome  cool  culture  fun  funny  humor  language  mp3  music  wtf  archive  auctioneer  livestock 
january 2006 by jtth
The TeachScheme! Project
A revolution is changing the design and teaching of introductory computer science curricula. The TeachScheme! Project is a leading innovator in these new curricula at the high school and college levels. The curriculum is in use at hundreds of high schools
computer  cs  education  lisp  programming  reference  scheme  school  tutorial  language  teaching 
january 2006 by jtth

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