Stanford
Posted on November 13th, 2009 by kit
Good:
- Awesome research happening here; chances to do grammar induction with sparse data, or, more accurately, work on it.
- They sure have funding.
Bad:
- Beautiful lawns with no one on them.
- Feels like southern California.
- Definitely exclusive; will my patent application make up for my lack of published work?
What kind of patent do you have?
Application, not patent yet. It’s for a kind of predictive text input.
Yoipes. Would a grad app really be expected to be published?
Do the lawns have “Do not Step on Grass” signs ?
So they tell me. And the lawns have no signs!
Are you applying to Stanford linguistics? Or another program?
Because I assure you, if it’s linguistics you do not need to have published. A conference presentation helps, but out of the people that I know who got in to every top program (I know four or five people like this and only one had even a conference presentation publication. And she is currently doing a double PhD in linguistics and brain and cog sci at MIT and is sort of an anomaly.)
Enjoy Stanford! did you meet chris potts?
Linguistics, yes. That’s good to hear. And no, I didn’t. But I met Dan Jurafsky!