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Monthly Archives: January 2012
The art of giving presentations
Some people have a gift (the 1%: OCCUPY THEM) for public speaking. I don’t mean public speaking involving empirically-devoid yet emotionally-inspiring rhetoric, factually dubious assertions, and irrelevant argumentation, but rather: the speaking that usually involves a strict adherence to the … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Mathematics, Real Life
Tagged autoregressive models, capstone, computer science, critique, images over text, journal club, keep it simple stupid, linear algebra, neil degrasse tyson, oh god look at all that text, powerpoint, son i am disappoint, the chakra lab, you're doing it wrong
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Hadoop [actually, Ubuntu] Headache
My desktop, Ronon, is a beast (yes, its namesake is exactly what you think it is): twin Radeon 4890 video cards, terabytes of hard drive space (will eventually be adding an SSD to the mix; that’s the next major upgrade), 18GB of … Continue reading
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 