Internships--11/4/2012

I looked at an internship at Nuance for a visual designer job. Expert level of design tools, like Adobe Photoshop are required and knowledge on speech recognition technology is a plus. The job involves perfecting the look of most Nuance mobile applications.

Philosophy--11/4/2012

I read about Independence, which is defined as a virtue with which one is self-supporting. This means they don't consume what they haven't earned. Dependence would be relying on the charity of others rather than working for it. Independence is often referred to in the context of production but it can also apply to how the mind works. If someone were to take someone else's thoughts and try to substitute them for their own, they wouldn't be able to judge how accurate they are, because they aren't this person's thoughts.

Articles--11/4/2012

There was an interesting article in the Union Tribune about how Microsoft is helping fill jobs in computer science. Engineers at Microsoft teach one class on computer science for an entire school year in an effort to get students more interested in the field. There are a lot of jobs in computer science right now but hardly anyone to fill them. Companies like Google have also done their part to get students interested, but Microsoft is the only one teaching classes.

Rosetta Stone--11/4/2012

I did the core lesson for level 1, unit 4, lesson 3. This lesson included vocab like "wood/metal/plastic", "heavy/light", "slow/fast", "some/more/most", and "expensive/cheap".

To-Do--11/4/2012

To-Do:

• Wake-up: 9:30 am
• Done
• Check email (10 minutes)
• Done
• Archery (2 hours)
• Done
• Lunch (.5 hours)
• Done
• Polish project proposal (1 hour)
• Done
• Read ahead for Italian next week (1 hour)
• Done
• Look up Spanish phonetics for next week (1 hour)
• Done
• Revise Muir 50 proposal (1 hour)
• Done
• Dinner (1 hour)
• Done
• Python programming (1 hour)
• Chapter 13
• Didn't get to this
• Sleep: 1 am

Internships--11/3/2012

I looked at an NLP Research Manager job at Nuance. The job description involves overseeing the development of new NLP technology and planning tools and processes in order to cut out the research involvement stage for professional service teams.

Philosophy--11/3/2012

I read about harmony of interests, which is what motivates people to be a part of a society. The harmony of interests is the idea that people can benefit from positive interactions with people who share the same interests and while their desires might be different, their basic interests will be the same.