Nitin Sawhney New Double CD

NITIN SAWHNEY ‘ALL MIXED UP’ NEW ALBUM – RELEASED 27TH SEPTEMBER 2004 AVAILABLE ON 2CD + DOUBLE VINYL

Nitin’s latest album presents a collection of stunning re-workings of his most diverse and inspiring tracks to date. ‘ALL MIXED UP’ contains collaborations from some of the most talented remixers around, including the likes of Joe Clausell, Bugz In The Attic, Ges-e (Nasha), KV5, Quantic, Freeform Five, and MJ Cole.

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Zipf’s Law & Linguistic Entropy

Finally uploaded my fourth year report on Zipf’s Law & Linguistic Entropy[pdf]. I’ll make a HTML version available as soon as I can.

In brief, Zipf�s law applied to linguistics relates the rank and frequency of single words. We discuss generalised thermostatistics and demonstrate that a framework of Naudts-Czachor generalised thermostatistics can describe the statistical behaviour of words outside the mid-range of word ranks that follow Zipf�s law. While such formulations may lack the simplistic appeal of Zipf�s law, they can be used to explain linguistic structure inaccessible to us using Zipf�s law. Using principal component analysis, we study the fitted parameters for a range of texts, showing that they are characteristic of the author and intended audience, even when based on reasonably small samples of the original text.

We then examine the occurrence of two-word phrases in relation to their single word probabilities, demonstrating a proposal by Egghe (J. Am. Soc. Info. Sci., 50, 223 (1998)) of the approximate power-law. We introduce a pair-vocabulary reduction constant in an attempt to incorporate the effects of syntax and semantics. This modification to Egghe�s proposal improves the quantitative agreement with our empirical findings. Finally, we examine the existence of kernel and unlimited lexica for single-words and two-word phrases, each of which corresponds to a different Zipfian regime. We show that there is good evidence for a kernel lexicon in English of about 43 words.
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FIB

Off to Benicassim to-night to attend FIB, which will hopefully be an amazing mix of music, sun, and fun.

Some of the bands playing: (Thu) Tim Booth, Ash and Felix Da Housecat; (Fri) The Charlatans, Pet Shop Boys, Kraftwerk, Air, Snow Patrol and Kings of Leon; (Sat) Morrissey, Lou Reed, Belle & Sebastian, Primal Scream, Scissor Sisters, Soulwax, and Teenage Fanclub; (Sun) Brian Wilson, Franz Ferdinand and The Chemical Brothers; and, finally, 2 Many DJs on the Monday.
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