March/2018

Desperate. Wanna go home.

Keep writing nonsense in Japanese on white paper.

Repeating Sara Kurokawa’s My life.

意味のないでき事、世の中一つもない。

何かを否定するためにやったことも意味がある。

April/2018

Calm down and concentrate on other assignments.

Recall the great sense of achievement when getting something understood.

12/May/2018

Wasting time…

13/May/2018

Unless you start to do something in practice, you would never know how many problems/questions you actually have and have to face…

Today I’ve come up with some questions like:

• Do input and outoput need to be of the same type of sub-word units?

• Regarding the vocabulary/lexicon, does that refer to all words (or any sub-word units) in input and output altogether?

• For BPE, do we apply BPE to both input and output?

Although some of them seem to have quite explicit and certain answers after I thought through for a while, the process of raising questions and figuring them out is a really important part of doing research.

15/May/2018

Found a corpus seems to be very useful for my thesis!

But it costs a lot T_T

16/May/2018

Meeting with my smart supervisor.

Start with reading the code! get it worked at least!

17/May/2018

The corpus was ordered!

But have to wait for a long time.

“Old school snail mail” – Sxxxx

22/May/2018

Guilty, for the past few days.

Started reading The Girl with Seven Names.