Category Archives: linguistics

Vim regex-fu for LaTeX

Posted on September 24, 2009 by robfelty

When writing a beamer presentation with LaTeX, I organize my presentation into sections and subsections. Frequently, the title of the first frame (slide) in a subsection has the same name as the subsection. Let’s say I start off with the … Continue reading →

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Why doesn’t Mac update standard UNIX utilities?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by robfelty

I am currently teaching a course on programming for linguists. We are using python, but for the first few classes, I have been going over some standard UNIX utilities like cd, ls and such, plus using regular expressions with grep … Continue reading →

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Bash one-liners to the rescue

Posted on July 15, 2008 by robfelty

I recently find myself using handy bash one-liners more all the time. I think that this is where unix/linux can really start to shine. There are so many little programs that just do one thing, and one thing well. But … Continue reading →

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Working on making fancy graphs with R / fixed versus random babble

Posted on April 3, 2008 by robfelty

I have been working on learning R for several months now, and continue to get better at it and enjoy it more all the time. I am currently working on a spoken word recognition project at work. The task we … Continue reading →

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100 yootles bounty for solution to nested loop rounding error

Posted on November 5, 2007 by robfelty

I am working on doing some monte carlo simulations. I want to do a particular manipulation n times, but I want to constrain what I do based on three parameters, x, y, and z, which are probability distributions coded as … Continue reading →

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