The Blackboard site for the course is now active. The LX 522 course should appear as one of your options when you go to http://blackboard.bu.edu/ and enter your usual Kerberos login information. This is basically just a place where you can see what scores I have recorded for you on your homework, although there are …
Having spoken to a couple of people so far, my impression is that the light box problem in HW1 has mystified a few people. Let me take a moment here to say a couple of things about it. First, a note of trivia (well, trivia if what you are concerned with is syntax, rather than …
If you spill coffee on your homework handout and want a new one, you can download it and print it from the course syllabus/schedule page. The trick is that you need a password to get it, and I didn’t tell you what it is. Email me if you need it, and I’ll tell you. And …
I’ve heard from a couple of people whose textbooks have not arrived yet. If you are one of these people, ask Google about “monkey banana that the being” (use the quotes around it) and “*The bears snuffles” (use quotes here too). Look down around the third result, coming from Pomona. Although it’s almost certainly a …
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I see that you have found the blog. Great! So, having gotten through the first class of the course, let me note a couple of things that I didn’t actually mention in class, in all of the technological confusion. The syllabus/schedule I handed out mentioned a survey as “homework.” It’s not serious, it’s just a …