Natural Language Processing

Went to the public lecture last night on Natural Language Processing. It was very interesting, providing a concise overview of what research has been done in the area, its findings, practical uses for these findings and what research still needs to be done. I find NLP fascinating, although I suspect the maths side of it would do my head in if I were to do any work in that field :) Anyway that's an item ticked on my "must do before leaving Aberystwyth" list. I've been meaning to go to a guest lecture since the first week of my first year here, and last night I finally did it. That's the nice thing about being just across the road from the campus, it's easy to do these things.

Afterwards I got soaked, standing in the dense fog that had descended upon Aberystwyth, talking to a mate for an hour. Oops.

Managed to get a really nice long sleep last night. Mmmmm, sleep! And now it is my day of doom. By which I mean Tuesday. I hate Tuesdays, half of my weekly stuff happens on Tuesday. It goes something like this:

Demonstrate, hour off, badminton, immediately demonstrate again, lecture, hour off, lecture.

I'm constantly walking up and down the hill for those hours "off". Plus badminton really takes it out of me. And each time I do the demonstrating, that's basically an hour of walking around. I must get 90% of my weekly exercise on Tuesday alone.