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Category Archives: Programming
Necks are absolutely essential
Because without them, I would’ve forgotten my head somewhere by now. But probably wouldn’t have even realized it yet. This week has been a whirlwind. My collaborators and I are trying to get a research paper out (or, at least, … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Mathematics, Programming, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged brute force search, combinatorics fail, i wonder if the nsa has zettabyte storage, mawage is what bwings us togethah, n choose k, powerset, python, scatterbrained, strugglebug, yes i could have used a python generator thank you captain useless input, zettabyte
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Routines are boring
…but they are also conducive to productivity. Just sayin’. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks since moving into the new apartment. No, the moving isn’t finished yet; still quite a bit to go. The key, I suppose, is that … Continue reading
Day 6: Writing a paper
I spent the entire day today writing. Writing, proofreading, editing, and more writing. I printed off the entire online methods section for a paper we’re trying to submit–I’d just rewritten that particular section one day ago–and proceeded to bloody it … 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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If it works in testing, it’ll work in production!
In theory, anyway. Let’s look at Exhibit A from this past week: developing a fairly basic algorithm on Hadoop and deploying it Amazon’s beastly EC2 cluster. The Code If you’re at all interested, I’ve started posting code from my coursework … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Technology
Tagged amazon, apache hadoop, as opposed to "inelastic mapreduce", aws, carnegie mellon, distributedcache, ec2, emr, hadoop, inelastic mapreduce would be better at conserving momentum, mapreduce, naive bayes, plz 2 keep documentation up 2 date k thx, producing in testing, s3, testing in production, y u no ask y u no
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The standard deviation of the standard deviation is my friend?
I made a rather startling discovery in my research the other day. I was looking for a better way of filtering out pixels in the videos I was analyzing; picking an arbitrary constant to set the threshold didn’t seem to … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming
Tagged adaptive threshold, gamma distribution, gaussian distribution, grumpy cat is my friend, i imagine smirnov was always sober, if grumpy cat had any friends, kolmogorov-smirnov, mean, median, normal = gaussian, normal distribution, pixels, standard deviation, video
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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
Tabs or spaces?
I know this debate is old as dirt, but it was resurrected on my Google+ stream not too long ago, so I wanted to poll the intertubes and see what it, the Font of Knowlej, thought. The Debate It’s pretty … Continue reading
A spectrum of graphs
Millions of miles away, the Curiosity rover is going through an exhaustive battery of tests to make sure everything’s kosher before embarking on what will almost surely be the most thorough and informative Mars exploration to date. Meanwhile, we’re stuck … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Running
Tagged affinities, air force marathon, bunny in a measuring cup, eigenvectors, graph kernels, graphs, great race, image segmentation, images, lolcats, memory limits, pixels, python, races, ragnar, scikit-learn, semi-supervised learning, spectral clustering, structural biology suuuuuuuucks, zombie 5k
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As I lay failing at research…
…I’ll blog about it! In the interest of fully pointless disclosure: I’m trying to find a signal in this data for my research and utterly failing. Here’s a hint of what I’m up to: Needless to say, I’m stuck, so … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, Mathematics, Programming, Running, Technology, The Lady, Travel
Tagged blog about it, colorado, florida, garmin, github, gps, i'll blog so bad about it, kernel regression, kernel smoothing, linear regression, marathon training, pairwise distances, philadelphia marathon, publish or die, regression, ronon virtual cluster, scikit-learn, yeah i'm still working on getting unpacked
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Theatre of Consciousness 