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Thanks! My first landlord in Boston used to call me Brad Pitt :D
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It's a landing page. They're useful as a kind of online business card, where visitors can access all of your various online personalities from the same page instead of hunting around Google for ten years. Landing pages are popular in the tech community, but not really elsewhere. I can understand the confusion.
http://www.flavors.me
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I was originally attracted to linguistics because I saw it as a tool to help people by uniting them with a common language. I think that may have been because of a sense of Christian duty to others that I got growing up in a church. Though that's not the case anymore, I still love language and the power it has to be a window into other cultural perspectives, and I find syntax and language history endlessly fascinating.
Anyway, The Babel fish, an organism introduced by Douglas Adams that translates any language when you put it in your ear, was very inspiring in this regard. I didn't know what computational linguistics was when I first read his 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy', but I knew I wanted to make something like the Babel fish someday, and that's pretty much what I'm doing now. -
Well, what state do you live in? UMass Amherst has one of the very best graduate *and* undergraduate programs in the country, but if you're local and you can get into Stanford, UW, Brown, Georgetown, UCLA, or SUNY Buffalo, you'll be well off there, too.
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McDonalds. I know the food is terrible, but they're everywhere, so I'd always be able to go if I wanted to go to a restaurant.
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I wouldn't know, I don't really watch television :P
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Q: God, can you give me some empirical proof that you exist?
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