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- Forgot how exerting myself in humidity without being acclimated can result in migraines. Might have to go home before it gets unmanageable. 4 hours ago
- @write2run No. 4 hours ago
- @write2run It really was! I think the track club was out there too, though I started before they arrived *brushes shoulders off* :P 6 hours ago
- @write2run Yeah, I’m not too worried just yet. Figure I’ll ice throughout the rest of the day, foam roll tonight, and no running tomorrow :) 6 hours ago
- @__MeganJohnston @pritch I did the gross “wring my shirt out afterwards” thing after this morning’s workout :P It was like breathing water. 7 hours ago
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Author Archives: magsol
Pope Francis I: Reformer or Maintainer?
Habemus Papam! Yeah, I’m a few (several) weeks late on the announcement. But it’s still momentous for two immediate reasons: First pope from Latin America. First Jesuit pope. As with the election of every new pope (though there have only … Continue reading
My 40-day Facebook reprieve
For the entirety of Lent this year (February 13 – March 30), not once did I log into Facebook. Only once did I post on Twitter, when I was having some Hadoop issues. Totally cold turkey. And you know what? It … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, lolcat, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged facebook, i acknowledge my experience may not be typical, i also acknowledge that facebook sucks, if you do it right lenten resolutions can be absofreakinglutely awesome, lent, moar liek antisocial networking am i rite, or you could be lazy and give up giving things up, poke wars are pretty awesome, social networking
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For Boston
Reblogged from runsforcookies: The Boston Marathon is huge. Iconic. Legendary. If you qualified to run it, you’re lauded as a Real Runner – fast, dedicated, and maybe a little bit crazy (well, all of us marathoners are a little crazy, … Continue reading
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I’m not dead yet!
Along these lines: This month is a beast. Like marathon training, I have to respect the beast. As such, until May 3 (when the last of my projects is due for the semester), I make no guarantees about the frequency … Continue reading
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Review
Yeah I know: I’m not a reviewer, I don’t review things on this site (much), I’m not even a critic of any kind (in the official sense). But I care enough about this game and the StarCraft universe in general … Continue reading
Great Success.
Reblogged from كوين ف المغرب: As I sit here in my absurdly comfortable hotel room in Kampala, Uganda, and attempt to fill out my grant assessment forms (amendment to my previous post: in addition to Maroc Telecom, PAPERWORK is satan … Continue reading
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What I’m not getting for my birthday
The new SimCity game. I played the original SimCity as a kid. I have fond memories of being so hooked on the game that I’d wake up at 4am just so I could get in more gaming time beyond my 1 … Continue reading
GP: A new way to track running progress
And by “GP”, I of course mean guinea pigs! Ok fine: it actually means a statistical method called a Gaussian Process. By placing fairly strong assumptions on the form of the data, you can do lots of useful things like extrapolate … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming, Running
Tagged as opposed to nonparametric statistics, garmin connect, gaussian processes, github, guinea pigs own, guinea pigs!!!, linear regression, one should probably not run while programming, parametric statistics, python, running and programming ftw, scikit-learn
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Will Windows save us in a zombie apocalypse?
Based on my experience playing the custom Back to School map for Left 4 Dead 2 last night, my answer would be a resounding no. A friend of mine played this campaign recently. It was, in a word, fantastic. The attention to … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming
Tagged back to school, bsod during the zombie apocalypse, custom campaign, in this entirely fictional and scripted scenario windows you fail hard, l4d2, left 4 dead 2, particle physics ftw, steve ballmer what do you have to say for yourself, trusting windows during the zombie apocalypse is like trusting mitt romney to be in touch with the middle class OH SNAP, windows fail
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If it works in testing, it’ll work in production!
In theory, anyway. Let’s look at Exhibit A from this past week: developing a fairly basic algorithm on Hadoop and deploying it Amazon’s beastly EC2 cluster. The Code If you’re at all interested, I’ve started posting code from my coursework … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Technology
Tagged carnegie mellon, naive bayes, amazon, hadoop, mapreduce, aws, ec2, s3, emr, as opposed to "inelastic mapreduce", inelastic mapreduce would be better at conserving momentum, testing in production, producing in testing, apache hadoop, distributedcache, plz 2 keep documentation up 2 date k thx, y u no ask y u no
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