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oh good. has everyone who's received an NDSEG heard definitely one way or another?

aw geez i have been had heh

hahaha we definitely are crashing the site...

My (purely speculative) bet is that they're just doing a dry run with an invented list to make sure there aren't any ``glitches'' this year.

I've heard rumors that a model from computational linguistics (my field), Probabilistic Context Free Grammars, are supposed to be good models of protein folding. Have you heard about this? Is it something that biologists take seriously? I've only ever heard about this from other computational linguists, and I'd be interested to know if it's something biologists actually use or if it's just CLers tooting their own horns. =)

just once that i remember....

yeah, it seems a bit late in the day for notification to come today... heh

THIS IS A DEMOCRACY all in favor of hearing back tomorrow say AYE AYE

Anybody off to Edinburgh in the fall?

1024 awards

it was me! 11:26 am ET thursday

Seconded. You guys need to learn some fucking respect.

Thu Apr 9 11:26am ooohhhh yeaahhhhh EDIT: that's ET

alright after 2am i am out folks

my guess is that's what they say just to get us to stop bothering them. Just early enough that people won't have a legitimate reason for heart attacks, but late enough that they aren't making any promises they can't keep.

Yes. Case in point.

It's been that way almost a week I think? Now the whole page is down though...

+1

WHOA

hay guys what is the speed of email guys

more money for GRFP awards could mean a larger number of absolute awards, but wouldn't necessarily raise the percentage of successful applications if more people applied overall. I know a couple people who are leaning towards staying in school for another degree mostly because they don't want to have to search for a job just yet; does anybody know if more people head to grad school in hard economic times? I remember seeing a phdcomics that showed that the number of engineering phd students varied roughly monotonically with unemployment.... and if people do head to grad school more in hard times, there might be more GRFP applicants overall.

I don't actually know if I have a first preference yet, heh. Hopefully I'll hear back from places by spring break (three weeks from now) and I can have some time to think it over. were you at the northwestern visit day? We probably met if you were

I voted for computational psycholinguistics. Computational linguistics isn't "just" engineering; I'm interested in language acquisition, and one way to test a model of language learning is to write a computer program that does exactly what the model does, give it real data, and see if it learns the linguistic structures that we know humans must be able to learn. As I see it, this is the only real way to test claims towards the ``poverty of the stimulus:'' claims that the speech kids hear doesn't contain very much information about linguistic structure. Real speech might contain a lot of cues that are not useful in isolation but can be useful when integrated by powerful (and psychologically-evident) statistical algorithms. And the only way to see how these things hash out is to actually expose these algorithms to the stuff kids hear and see how well they do.