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Category Archives: Exercise
2014: One for the books
As the sun sets on 2014, it takes with it easily the most action-packed year of my short life. I’ll spare you the gory details of in-depth retrospectives that I’m probably still too close to objectively give, and instead just provide … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Exercise, Graduate School, Holidays, i ken make living plz
Tagged academia, athens, crazy year in review, dissertation defense, five years' worth of stuff crammed into one, goodbye pittsburgh, half marathon, happy new year, i'm a ramblin' wreck from georgia tech and a helluvan engineer, job hunt, mawwage is what bwings us togethah today, moving, new year, personal record, pittsburgh, publications, publish or publish, running, the best dissertation defense is a good dissertation offense, would totally do it all over again, year in review
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Day 4: Rain
I attended a track workout with the local Fleet Feet this morning, and it poured. the whole. time. Of course I knew that this was a possibility, and of course I didn’t bother to pack a towel. Of course. And … Continue reading
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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Playoffs
That’s what the current stage of marathon training feels like: football playoffs. After you’ve weathered football camp, double sessions, the blazing southern heat of August and September, and 10 regular season games, the playoffs arrive. It’s a time of anticipation … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise, lolcat, Real Life, Running, The Lady
Tagged 136 miles in october and that's without the runs i skipped due to a gimp foot, double sessions, football, football camp, high school football, monster month, philadelphia marathon, philly marathon, playoffs, races, regular season, running
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Run for your lives!
No, not literally. It’s a 5k obstacle course. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s an obstacle course with zombies. Think L4D2, minus any sort of defense besides running away as fast as you possibly can. If you … Continue reading
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
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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The Steadfast 10k
10k has always been one of my favorite distances: it’s long enough to be interesting, but short enough to be pretty effing painful. And it takes a lot of work to improve one’s time on it. Say, one full year. … Continue reading
Theatre of Consciousness 