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? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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what is it with SCA developers who have trouble with metathesis gah

I'm really glad to hear you're using a sophisticated featural vector approach. My next big bio project is going to be something very analogous; I started work on it a couple of years ago but scrapped it because I realised I was implementing the actual alignment procedure in an asinine way.

A neat trick I discovered which might help handling metathesis: convert your feature vectors to floating point (if they aren't already) and add a small fraction of the neighbouring phonemes to each value. This will 'colour' your letters according to their environment. I came up with this while looking into ways to compress multiple nucleotides into one slot for the first pass on a local search, relying more on the histogram than the basic sequence. (Although, obviously, that approach requires some caution to deal with frameshift.)

I look forward to your thread.
? Morrígan Witch Queen of New York
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Yeah! That's exactly what I'm doing actually, I just need to work on feature weights (or perhaps, probability of feature-transfer, something like that).

My SCA handles metathesis quite nicely, I'll have you know! I need to finish the manual for that too, I've been slogging through it for a month.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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More things I look forward to!
? bloodbath, Ph.D. Physicist and Numismatist
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, Hydrogen, Ohio, USA
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So, last fall, I applied for a grant from the FNR (Luxembourg Research Foundation). I got rejected. I was sad.

I reworked and tweaked the application and decided to try again for this spring, especially since I felt like last time was a practice run. My application was "retained for funding".

This means I'm moving to Luxembourg in the foreseeable future, but the exact timeline is dependent on how the process of getting my residence permit goes. But this means I'll be finishing up my PhD work over there, which makes me rather happy.
? hwhatting posts: 105
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Congratulations!
? Morrígan Witch Queen of New York
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That's awesome! Congratulations~
? twabs fair maiden
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, Conversational Speaker, /ˈajwʌ/
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I have made indian bread!

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Then I ate it all, and now there is naan left :-(
? hwhatting posts: 105
, Sophomore, Bonn, Germany
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Pun 'em et circenses...
? bloodbath, Ph.D. Physicist and Numismatist
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, Hydrogen, Ohio, USA
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I am now in Luxembourg. There's been a lot of running around since moving here a week ago with administrative stuff and some practical things, but things are coming along nicely. I think.

Big things are that I need to buy some chemicals soon so I can start researching, order a computer for my office, and finalize my titre de séjour, the latter of which is going to be a big bother (yay for medical exams). But hopefully all will be great and I can then soon book my trip to India for my friend's wedding.
? Izambri Left of the middle
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, Duke, the Findible League
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Kentaro Miura's Berserk is being translated into Catalan. I can't be happier.

    Published as 'Maximum' edition; three volumes issued right now, bimensual.

          Happiness.
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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, 蘇黎世之侯
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May he rest in peace!
? bloodbath, Ph.D. Physicist and Numismatist
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, Hydrogen, The Nether Regions
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I realize one of my last posts in this thread was getting a grant to go to Luxembourg. Well... it turns out I got a grant to go back to Luxembourg.

Summary: There's a highly competitive grant program here in Europe called Marie Skłodowska-Curie, which is a two-year grant for a postdoctoral project. I applied four years ago for a grant to stay in the Netherlands and was spectacularly unsuccessful. I submitted the application for this round back in September, writing my own project for wearable technology development, but this time with a lot of help from the prospective host institute. Well, the results were announced on Monday. To my immense surprise, I ended up with a very high score (99.4/100), which means that I'll be moving back this summer (immigration procedures willing).

Pretty red passport, here I come.
? hwhatting posts: 105
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Congratulations!
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