Statistical translation and the idea curve.
Following the
Web 2.0 conference, it looks like I've missed leading the edge of the idea bell curve (again.) Some of my friends and I have been poking at things like statistical machine translation for the past three or so years. Now it looks like
Google beat us to it. Unfortunately, we have all been too preoccupied with school.
I am thinking of leaving school to code some of my ideas. I just know that I probably won't return once I leave. On the other hand, I'm tired of only having enough time to do the most basic testing of concepts (pre alpha level or so.) Perhaps after the end of this, my second year at
college. Ideally I would be able to work part time, go to school part to quarter time, and implement some of these ideas. Unfortunatly, I probably won't find a part time job around here that will pay enough and still let me attend school.