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Category Archives: i ken make living plz
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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The toxicity of Facebook
Of course, everything I discuss here can be generalized beyond Facebook, but it is arguably the biggest perpetrator, and therefore the easiest example. I’ve made similar posts before, but today’s content is decidedly more personal. Why Facebook brings out the … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Occupation, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged building connections more like building political hatred, even though i would love nothing more than to perma-delete my facebook with extreme prejudice, facebook, facebook is le suck, important things shouldn't go on facebook, ipso facto nothing should go on facebook, oversharing, pittsburgh, reality would seem to dictate i have an account, we heart pittsburgh
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The Job Hunt
Since the start of October, I’ve been in full-on job-hunting mode. Courtesy of Ph.D. Comics, this pretty much sums up how I feel: Something any prospective doctor of philosophy should know: academic and industry hiring processes are very different. Universities are going … Continue reading
Moving
It sucks. Unless you love books, of course. Quite literally the morning after my successful thesis proposal, The Lady and I started the day-long process of moving our respective items from our respective apartments into our swank new two-bedroom pad. … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Internet, Occupation, Real Life, Research, Running, the fam, The Lady
Tagged achievement unlocked: thesis proposed, awesome new apartment is awesome, internet owns, kitty invented a new kind of yoga specifically tailored for kitties, moving sucks, pad thai and beer, stargate atlantis, stargate makes unpacking just a little more bearable, stargate sg-1, stress
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Not quite according to plan
I’ve spent the better part of the last few hours reinstalling my Ubuntu virtual machine from scratch after completely botching my previous install’s configuration. How? I was attempting to get Python 2.5 up and running with a few custom packages, … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Internet, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming, Technology
Tagged 20000 visits, cronjob, first-order markov model, hidden markov model, hmm, humor, love me some probabilistic spam, machine learning, probability, public timeline, sampling, twitter, twitterbot, ubuntu kicked my ass, we're men in tights
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It’s Expo Time! It’s Expo Time!
Today is the local project expo in Research Triangle Park, showcasing what we ExtremeBlue interns have been working on since late May. ::Edit:: I apologize for the brevity of this post and the quality of the pictures – the entire … Continue reading
Insert corporate buzzword here
Don’t get too excited; my resurfacing is only temporary for the time being. 😛 To those of you interested in my off-duty programming: I am indeed making progress on the CMS front. The system structure is beginning to unfold nicely, … Continue reading
…to the great Ronald Reagan…!
That pretty much sums up everything I could possibly say about both the VP debate from last weekend and the Presidential debate last night. Plus I’ve been ranting about politics way more than I should be of late. So! Moving … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, i ken make living plz, movies, Real Life, The Lady
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How to succeed at failing
WARNING: Very lengthy, lots of drama! Technically, this blog is supposed to be one of many resources available to those who wish to discover more about the lives of students in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. My interpretation of that … Continue reading
Posted in i ken make living plz, lolcat, Real Life, the dark side
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Theatre of Consciousness 