fantasy job of the month: 'something in advertising'

copywriter, maybe. or something similar.
(last month: magazine journalist. see the progression?)

just read how to get your first job in advertising by this Dave Trott, who's apparently quite well-known and that, and I feel like I could do it. Just need some kind of portfolio it seems. Just knocking one up of imaginary adverts that you'd imaginarily do - isn't that a bit GCSE? is that normal? Could totally do that though. It would be fun. And a better use of my time than wandering around blogs.



this is never actually gonna happen.

Concept Mining

Here

About as promising then disappointing as this dinosaur comic.

In the way that I'd love there to be NLP-related jokes that are really funny, it would also be amazing for there to be a breakthrough, effective, text-mining solution.

But whilst tech webcomics might someday hit on a decent pun, it's harder to see how this kind of thesaurus-inspired NLP is going to get around one of the very issues inherent in thesauri - the artificial formalising, breaking things up into this tree structure. Yes, in the predecessor it's necessary - how else would you organise things in a book? But is this really how we think, or just the closest possible model?

Ok, in translating something to computation, it needs to be formalised. But what's the point, really, in just continuing with this line of thinking?

And ok, I don't have any better ideas. But I'll work on the text mining jokes.