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Category Archives: Graduate School
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
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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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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Of Running and Programming
Seems like this has been my life of late: as spring blooms and the end of the semester nears, I’ve had time for running and working. Both have been progressing well, so I suppose I can’t complain. Well, mostly progressing well. … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Exercise, Google, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, The Lady
Tagged capstone, codejam, computer vision, elite runners and walkers, everyone got a pr, google codejam, half marathon, java, just a short run, philoceraptor, that run with rob was literally one of the most taxing things ever, undergrads, underlings
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A week of scripting
Before I launch into today’s rendition of “How I Spent A Week Doing Something Essential To My Research That Someone In Industry Could Have Done In 5 Minutes”, I wanted to remark on how, lately, this post has been seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming, The Lady, Travel
Tagged canvas, derivatives, drupal, drupal module, explosions, ffmpeg, github ftw, html5, html5 canvas, javascript, javascript is the devil, loud noises, more like multi-dimensional bs am i rite, morocco, multi-dimensional surfaces, oh god it's evolution, onward to morocco, optimization, particle swarm optimization, python, socks proxies will come in handy, transcoding video formats really sucks, why not call it flock of geese optimization, zencoder, zerg rush, zerg swarm
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
7:35am: Wake-up. Blerrrrrgh. 7:40am: Restart the Mahout job that met a premature demise when my desktop locked up. I want to see if I can get results out of this. 7:55am: The Lady picks me up. We’re off to the nearby Frick Park … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Exercise, foooooood, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged bagel factory, bagels, chipotle ftw, chipotle: always a good decision, church, drupal, frick park, general jack o'neill, gotta love them hills, heartland institute is a waste of space, inverse harmonic oscillation, kitty, mahout, mass, numpy, physics, richard dean anderson, ronon, running, stargate atlantis, thesis, Ubuntu, underlings, video input driven animation, virtualization, you're a kitty
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
8:30am: …why am I awake this early? 9:00am: Yeah, definitely going back to sleep. 10:40am: Feeling much better now! Let’s have some breakfast. 11:00am: Hmm. Looks like my domain name was finally deactivated. Over a year ago, I stopped payments … Continue reading
Posted in Daily, Exercise, foooooood, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged bagel factory, bagels, bike ride, domain name, don't be a dick, drupal, magsolweb, mahout, my drunk kitchen, quinoa, sauvignon blanc, sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep, sleep, virtualbox
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Friday, February 17, 2012
5:56am: I bloody hate when you wake up just before your alarm. I had literally just come out of a dream (of course I can’t remember what it was now, but at the time when I popped awake, I could … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged belgian food is teh pwn, breakfast, cats all the way down, cell and systems, computational biology, early freaking wakeup, gates hillman complex, ghc, how it should have ended is awesome, my drunk kitchen is awesome, om nom nom, outofmemoryexception is not awesome, point brugge, point brugge is literally the best restaurant in pittsburgh, racquetball, reddit, reddit blows, weightlifting
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
7:30am: Woke up. Wow, apparently I really was burned out from yesterday. 8:23am: Received a notification that the Berlin Buzzwords conference has chosen its keynote speakers. Really like the lineup! Leslie Hawthorn was the GSoC program manager awhile back and … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Exercise, Graduate School, lolcat, movies, Real Life
Tagged berlin buzzwords, bicycle, burned out, burning the candle at both ends, csm, garbage disposal, google summer of code, GSoC, how it should have ended, leslie hawthorn, mountain lion more like mountain of ios bs, running, sean connery is watching you pee, spicy black bean pasta makes everything better, sybil, the couple who game together stay together, the hunt for the red october
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