Thaumaturgist (usurped)

Personal Information

My name in the RL is Rob Sykes. I am currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah finishing my undergraduate studies in Arabic and linguistics. I will be moving soon to pursue graduate studies in linguistics elsewhere. We'll see, won't we?

My Website

Personal interests

Thousands, namely linguistics, computers, running, statistics, video games, Freemasonry, religion, the list goes on.

Academic interests

Primarily cognitive science, with particular interests in phonetics, phonology, connectionism (for example, Stochastic OT), neural networks. As far as traditional generative linguistics is concerned, I work within the frameworks provided, but I remain agnostic to the UG hypothesis.

Wikipedia interests

I will focus primarily on articles within theoretical linguistics and Freemasonry.

Also, userboxes.

This user is interested in linguistics.

This user is interested in Islamic civilizations.

man-
kindRegarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

This user is a Bayesian.

This user's deviation is standard.

This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.

This user recognizes the Palestinian right of return.^‡

This user identifies as a centrist.

This user is a Freemason.

Dual

This user uses an AMD Dual Core processor.

Core

This user is interested in Theism.

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

This user is a university student.

band-3This user likes Deftones.

band-3This user likes Tool.

band-3This user likes Queens of the Stone Age.

V	This user is a lacto-ovo-vegetarian.

This user prefers
New York pizza

This user likes waffles.

This user drinks Single malt whisky. Ahh...malt.

This user drinks English beer and ale.

LynchThis user is a fan of David Lynch's films.

STAR WARSThis user would shoot Greedo first.