Normally, on a Saturday morning, the first thought that occurs, as soon as I manage to pull myself off my bed, is….. It’s an offffffffffffffff and I’m gonna finish this Sidney Sheldon novel ( which will be right next to my pillow, as I would have fallen asleep while reading it the previous night!) or watch so-and-so movie on TV or on my comp. But today, the first thought that came to my mind was… I JUST HAVE TO read up and actually set those thinking wheels on the roll!
Well, I did have a Sidney Sheldon to read (“Rage of Angels” for all the Sheldon enthusiasts or people who just wanna know the name of the book :P ). But I ignored the urge to open it and switched on my comp so that I could stick to my just-before-hitting-the-sack oath ( which I strictly adhere to by the way) : gather, learn, take in and put-to-use as much as you can read up about Python and NLTK and yes, also BLOG!!! :P
I’m sure the question will arise, “What were you doing all this while? “, “Project work started like 15 days back”,“What were you doing till now??” Honestly, I was just reading papers and articles, going through bits and pieces of Python programming and NLTK. And also gathering my thoughts about text simplification and complication. Today, I decided to go about it in a more structured and systematic fashion.
My progress so far you ask?
· I went through Python programming from the site : http://software-carpentry.org/ . It’s a very good site with video tutorials. Makes learning much more fun. And since audio and video is a great combo for the learning process (atleast for me), it did really help!
· I covered the first 150 pages of the book- Natural Language Processing with Python.
Well it’s not much for now, but it’s a start for the weekend. And I couldn’t resist the urge to blog right away, despite the fact that I haven’t really covered much for the day.! Oh my God, I forgot I skipped lunch! (I’m sure Bhuvan is beyond surprised that I actually missed a meal (:P) ) I’ll go grab a quick bite… Will be back with more updates!!
This is exactly what I expect :-) blog about your progress when you run out of topics :P
ReplyDeleteNicely written :-)
I was particularly captivated with the idiom "thinking wheels on the roll". That ignited my thinking wheels to start rolling towards the highways of text simplification destination :-)
Given your interest in the language, I wish that you too participate in the field work.
Haha thanks :-) That idiom exists?? I don't know if it does!! :P
ReplyDeletenope! its an idiom owned by you :P
ReplyDeleteOh yeay!! :P I'll have to get it patented then :P
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