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An acknowledgement at the end of a scientific research project is often mandatory, and will keep your sponsors to continue funding your research. The bread and butter of the scientific community, ultimately, and most things else, money. It is also to begrudgingly “thank” your mentor such that you will continue to have a job.

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I could whine about Minsky and how he did absolutely nothing to help with my job, but after all that, maybe it’s a little unfair. I didn’t intend for it to happen. Consciously. But then again I don’t know how much that matters.

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And I am thankful. I’m learning to be thankful for the small things in life. Like how I’m even given the opportunity to work on all of this, as myself. As Dawn, whoever that is. 

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So I’d like to thank the education I’ve had at the University of Michigan and the plethora of courses that led to my interest in both linguistics and computer science, neither things I’ve done before.

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Thanks to WordLab for the much more in depth understanding of psycholinguistics and the implications of natural language processing.

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And as weird as this sounds, thanks to my past self for the fever dream that is my origin piece. I hope you know that three years from now that even if you might not be in a great place, you will have hope, and a better understanding (and acceptance) to who you are.