Monthly Archives: February 2011

Quick aside

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Shannon Quinn

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 →

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101 in 1001

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Shannon Quinn

According to some clever Unix timestamp manipulation, 1001 days from now it will be November 4, 2013. According to some clever folks on the Internets, 1001 days is a convenient amount of time to get some serious stuff accomplished. And … Continue reading →

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Research, or tool for research?

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Shannon Quinn

Every Friday afternoon, the students in our Ph.D. program are given the opportunity to present their research to the other students in the program. It’s a great chance to take stock of what you’ve been doing, as well as give … Continue reading →

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CPU ubiquity

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Shannon Quinn

There was this fantastic poll on Slashdot recently (ok, most of their polls are awesome) that really makes you consider just how ubiquitous computers have become, and to what phenomenal degree we take them for granted. In honor of this … Continue reading →

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