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Category Archives: Graduate School
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
On a reality show about graduate school admissions
This has to be one of the greatest conversations I’ve seen in quite awhile. Yeah, it’s a blatant copy/paste, but it’s glorious. Apologies to the IRL folks I’m quoting. From Google+: Rob: “There could be a TV show about graduate school … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, random, Real Life
Tagged fair point about graduate school admissions being bs, i suppose the whole point of reality tv is that it isn't real, if you can't laugh at yourself then get out of grad school brah, lol google+, owned, pwn, pwnd, pwned, there were a lot of spelling and grammar corrections in those quotes
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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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Philly bound!
Tomorrow, The Lady and I make our way to Philadelphia for Sunday’s marathon. If you’re interested in tracking my progress, I’ll be setting up a live tracking link through MapMyRun that will be available on my Twitter, which will be … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Real Life, Running, the fam, The Lady, Travel
Tagged guinea pigs make everything better, it seems like it's the middle distance folks with no desire to run longer who call me crazy, long distance runners are usually very supportive, non runners are usually very supportive, philadelphia, philadelphia marathon, philly, researchy research, runners rant, the lady will receive a box of driving talent for her birthday
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I need a running blog
Mainly because there’s so much going on with running and with researching, it’s getting difficult to pick what to bloogggggg about. Though I suppose that’s better than the alternative of starting every post with “so I’ve been bad about blogging … Continue reading
A spectrum of graphs
Millions of miles away, the Curiosity rover is going through an exhaustive battery of tests to make sure everything’s kosher before embarking on what will almost surely be the most thorough and informative Mars exploration to date. Meanwhile, we’re stuck … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Running
Tagged affinities, air force marathon, bunny in a measuring cup, eigenvectors, graph kernels, graphs, great race, image segmentation, images, lolcats, memory limits, pixels, python, races, ragnar, scikit-learn, semi-supervised learning, spectral clustering, structural biology suuuuuuuucks, zombie 5k
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