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- "But amidst talk that wouldn't seem entirely out of place in Dr. Strangelove, [...]" arstechnica.com/science/2013/0… #wtfportland 11 hours ago
- Monsooning outside. RFID reader for the parking deck registered my pass from inside the car. #victorykid 12 hours ago
- @write2run You’ve been there?? Jealous! And also, this list is just to get the ball rolling. As it were. 13 hours ago
- @cliffhanger407 Awesome, thanks! It’s on a list with several others I’ve found, likely to grow in number. 14 hours ago
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Tag Archives: google
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
Online services I don’t understand
When it comes to “social revolution”, I have to admit I’m pretty skeptical. Yes, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon of more than one social network (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn), have used them extensively, and still continue to do so. But … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Internet, lolcat, Real Life
Tagged 4square, change.org, facebook, google, instagram, lolcats, social networks, social networks as theoretical constructs are extremely interesting, social networks in practice are incredibly boring, the social revolution is kind of nauseating, tumblr, we the people, web services, what's the point
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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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Philanthropic computer donations
For those who aren’t aware, my sister is a full-fledged member of the Peace Corps and is currently living and working in a small Moroccan city. It’s a pretty spectacular setting: dirt roads, traffic jams with animals instead of cars, … Continue reading
Posted in Real Life, the fam
Tagged computer donations, donate computers, donations, google, morocco, olpc, one laptop per child, peace corps, philanthropy
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Failed marathons and cross-country excursions
Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of time to update–getting set up as a Google employee is quite time-consuming–but I wanted to mention a few things that have happened lately. Cathryn and I attended the Pittsburgh Marathon, slated to run … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise, Google, Real Life, the fam, The Lady
Tagged also kittens, at least the uga commencement was only 80 percent as long as georgia tech, but man the atmosphere is sweeeet, family, google, graduation, gradumacation, half marathon, internship, marathon, mountain view, neither was the five hour flight over, or the time change, pittsburgh half-marathon, the rain hasn't been too much fun though, west coast awesomeness
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Quick aside
Just wanted to put this out there: in the last three weeks, I have become a committer in the Apache Mahout project (I’m drawing up thesis ideas that revolve around this) had a paper accepted with the BSEC conference (will … Continue reading
Posted in Real Life
Tagged acceptance, bsec, bsec2011, committer, conference, google, internship, interview, mahout, open source, paper
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Code! Jam!
Don’t look now, but the 2009 rendition of Google Codejam is very close to concluding its qualification round! The competition opened yesterday at 7pm eastern. I worked with my partner in C++ crime who goes by the moniker of Danimal … Continue reading →