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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Childhood Experiences
Over the last few days I’d been working on a post that described in disgusting detail the issues I’ve been having with the kernel regression method I used to get an idea of how my average running pace has improved … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Google, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Real Life
Tagged but i suppose the opinion section isn't known for its research, camp counselor, camps, co-op, college, emotional pleas are great but facts are even better, google, high school, IBM, if all you're doing at an internship is fetching coffee GET A NEW INTERNSHIP, internships, this guy didn't do a whole lot of research, yeah yeah i know caring about facebook = inherent fail
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Oh, Pittsburgh [Half-Marathon]
Here’s the promised race report: it sucked, the end. Ok fine, that’s a little unfair. A lot unfair, in fact. I suppose I should walk through what really went down that morning of Sunday, May 6. Get ready for a lengthy … Continue reading
Posted in Real Life, Sports, The Lady
Tagged a lot went wrong and some went right, bonking, good luck with that javascript based image copy protection noobs, kernel regression, linear regression, overtraining, pittsburgh half-marathon, pittsburgh marathon, point state park, running, stupid 376 onramp, stupid birmingham bridge, stupid boulevard of the allies, subpar performance, the lady always keeps things in perspective, WHY WERE ALL THE RELAY RUNNERS WALKING IT MAKES NO F&#@ING SENSE, yeah i went there combining running with linear regression
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A Rant on Reasonable Expectations
With the semester wrapping up, I feel my status as a teaching assistant for a computational modeling course compels me to address something that we’ve encountered off and on the past several months. I’ll let Condescending Wonka introduce it. He … Continue reading
Bad OpenCV Weekend
Late last week, I took the plunge and upgraded my work desktop–which, to the Irony Gods’ great delight, is also a production server–from Ubuntu 11.10 to the Precise 12.04 known as Pangolin. Cue every IT professional ever: With two tiny … Continue reading
The Steadfast 10k
10k has always been one of my favorite distances: it’s long enough to be interesting, but short enough to be pretty effing painful. And it takes a lot of work to improve one’s time on it. Say, one full year. … Continue reading
