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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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Monday, February 13, 2012
7:29am: …asdfjk; whaa? What time is…WHY IS IT 7:30 IN THE MORNING. WHY DID MY 6am ALARMS NOT GO OFF. Oh, I turned them all off; I must have been “woken up” by the first one, shut the rest of them … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Daily, Graduate School, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming, The Lady
Tagged apache mahout, asserting marathons cause adverse effects is parroting bad science, autoregressive models, bst3, cmu, cmu@qatar, ira flatow, kernel panic, lolcats, mahout, morocco, physical therapy, qatar, relevant to my interests, rodney mckay, science friday, sleeping in, stargate, stargate atlantis, the underlings, valentine's day
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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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A new year full of…MapReduce?
If you’re reading the title of this post and wondering what the crap I’m going on about, I’d like to share with you one of my favorite quotes from the wonderful, awesome, and fantastic PBS TV show Arthur: D.W.: “Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Programming, Real Life, the fam, The Lady, Travel
Tagged arthur, arthur aka best tv show evar, autoregressive models, beat frequency, graphs, hadoop, illinois, mahout, mapreduce, matlab, morocco, nertz, nertz is the greatest card game evar, new years, python, quinn in morocco, revivals are inherently selfish on the part of the people who instigate them, technical report, we've nicknamed it the christmas conversion, we've nicknamed these instances in general "revivals"
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Theatre of Consciousness 