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Category Archives: Programming
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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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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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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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
Tabs or spaces?
I know this debate is old as dirt, but it was resurrected on my Google+ stream not too long ago, so I wanted to poll the intertubes and see what it, the Font of Knowlej, thought. The Debate It’s pretty … 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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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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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
