 A few favorite quotes: "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation! Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" Achilles to Tortoise (in "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter) "If the crib's on fire you don't speculate the baby's flame retardant." - Al Gore on global warming "Strike up the klezmer and start acting like a man. You're about to have a truth-mitzvah." - Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report | I'm a software developer, civic hacker, and student. civic hacking "Civic hacking" is creative use of technology to innovate our civic lives, especially our participation in government. GovTrack.us, a site that I built and have been running since 2004, is an open-source website that tracks what's happening in the U.S. Congress. I also work on the policy end of congressional transparency & technology. I do this through Civic Impulse, LLC, a company I formed in 2009. see: civic tech, publications work On alternate days (sort of) I work for LARSA, Inc., a small structural engineering software company with a really great product. Engineers use it to make sure bridges don't fall down. linguistics I also am an A.B.D. graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in the linguistics Ph.D. program. My dissertation is on the phonetic realization of [voice] and its acquisition (L1). I did a master's thesis on computational models of OT grammar acquisition. I hope (dearly) to finish in early 2010. see: publications, software projects other projects I have a lot of other personal software projects which I'm trying to spend less and less time on as I try to focus on the other things. see: software projects random bits Let's see... I'm a locavore and I like things to be orderly. More random bits about me. resume A.B., Princeton University, 2004; A.M., University of Pennsylvania, 2008; PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania, expected 2010. PDF
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