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- Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town 1 day ago
- @BadAstronomer @Syfy Well, I suppose 6 episodes is better than outright cancellation *cough Stargate Universe cough* 1 day ago
- B+ in BigML. Not that I’m wholly disappointed, but I had a 96 going into the final project. #wat 1 day ago
- @write2run Thank you :) Still waiting on BigML; sounds like it’ll show up tomorrow. 2 days ago
- Got a B in my fluorescence spectroscopy course. Considering the amount of quantum physics involved, I’m perfectly ok with that. 2 days ago
Calendar of mindless drivel
Category Archives: Academics
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
Birthdays, Weddings, and Publications, oh my!
Yeah, I’ve been slacking on posting again. Which kind of makes my considerations of late to start a running-only blog somewhat premature. It’s difficult to say, though; occasionally I purposely don’t post here because I want to post about something other … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life, Running, The Lady, Travel
Tagged arizona, birthday parties, freezing rain is literally the best kind of weather and by best i meant worst, george takei, hyatt regency, make sure to say "i don't know!" to lily, naturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenature, pittsburgh says "yeah we're not gonna salt the roads because reasons", running in single digits is pretty brutal but not as brutal as freezing rain, seriously we had freezing rain this morning, whoever said you'll need to write for the rest of your life was absolutely correct
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Year in [peer] Review
The WordPress year in review thingy, while somewhat intriguing, is (in my humble opinion) pretty boring. I mean, who really cares about pageviews on the internet? Am I rite? So taking a page from Megan’s post, and a page from … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Real Life, Running, The Lady, Travel
Tagged air force marathon, am i rite or am i rite, bsec, capstone projects, colorado, danimal and keeley ftw, grumpy cat ftw, i guess this wasn't really much of a review so sue me, joe biden is the man, marine corps marathon, oak ridge national labs, pittsburgh great race, pittsburgh marathon, run ALL the races
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The standard deviation of the standard deviation is my friend?
I made a rather startling discovery in my research the other day. I was looking for a better way of filtering out pixels in the videos I was analyzing; picking an arbitrary constant to set the threshold didn’t seem to … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming
Tagged adaptive threshold, gamma distribution, gaussian distribution, grumpy cat is my friend, i imagine smirnov was always sober, if grumpy cat had any friends, kolmogorov-smirnov, mean, median, normal = gaussian, normal distribution, pixels, standard deviation, video
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Getting back on the bandwagon
Yeah, I’ve been bad about updating again. Every time I’ve sat down to write a post on some tiny little thought I have, it becomes a long, rambling, philosophical soapbox fest that’s utterly uninteresting to anyone, including me. So I end … Continue reading
Science, and [one reason] why folks misunderstand it
You know, aside from the obvious. I’m going to try and avoid politics here, only mentioning some issues as they become relevant points in the discussion. Some topics of scientific research have morphed into ideological lightning rods, but the reasons … Continue reading
As I lay failing at research…
…I’ll blog about it! In the interest of fully pointless disclosure: I’m trying to find a signal in this data for my research and utterly failing. Here’s a hint of what I’m up to: Needless to say, I’m stuck, so … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, Mathematics, Programming, Running, Technology, The Lady, Travel
Tagged blog about it, colorado, florida, garmin, github, gps, i'll blog so bad about it, kernel regression, kernel smoothing, linear regression, marathon training, pairwise distances, philadelphia marathon, publish or die, regression, ronon virtual cluster, scikit-learn, yeah i'm still working on getting unpacked
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Needz moar psots
Just when I thought I was getting back into the swing of regular updates. Let’s face it: my writing isn’t particularly interesting to begin with, so throw in some ridiculous scheduling, eighteen million meetings, and a few travel weekends to … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Blogging, Exercise, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Real Life, The Lady, Travel
Tagged cilia, common sense, derp, four score and seven miles ago, herp derp, i now know how to be ethical, minion, moving sucks, publish or die, ragnar, rare dollar, underling, zebrafish
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