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Category Archives: Technology
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
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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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
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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Bad OpenCV Weekend
Late last week, I took the plunge and upgraded my work desktop–which, to the Irony Gods’ great delight, is also a production server–from Ubuntu 11.10 to the Precise 12.04 known as Pangolin. Cue every IT professional ever: With two tiny … Continue reading
Matplotlib + Lion = Matplionlib?
In a week marred by endless work, I wanted to take a moment to recognize a small triumph. I spent several hours working on this over the last few days–and many, many hours spread out over the months before it–and … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Internet, lolcat, Programming, Technology, Tutorial
Tagged apple, apple likes to include its own version of just about everything which of course is missing something crucial when it comes time to actually use it, homebrew, i'm reasonably sure this works for the most part the majority of the time probably, macports, matplotlib, numpy, or so many hours that i could have spent sleeping, os x 10.7, os x lion, python, scipy, so many hours that i could have spent actually accomplishing something
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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
In case you were wondering where I’ve been
…for those who stalk me… In case you’ve been living under a Microsoft rock, it was recently made public that certain GPS-enabled Apple devices have been tracking your location since last summer. As Exhibit A (after disabling the sync encryption), … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Blogging, Hardware, Internet, lolcat, Technology
Tagged apple, applulz, gps, iphone, load you piece of crap, location, lolcat, people literally know what you did last summer, travel
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SSL and websites requiring you to log in
The scene You walk into your favorite coffee shop–laptop/smartphone/tablet all in tow–you set up camp at a table, order your favorite coffee (and maybe an apple fritter…mmmmmm), spread your work all over the table (so you at least give the … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, lolcat, Programming, Real Life, Technology
Tagged application layer, communication protocols, cookies, data layer, encryption, firesheep, http, https everywhere, kismet, man i love this stuff, no i'm not going to reveal the conference, osi model, packet sniffing, packets, presentation layer, script kiddies, script kiddies are the charlie sheen of wireless networks, servers, socks proxy, ssl, tcp, tcpdump, tor, transport layer, udp, vpn, winning, wired, wireless, wireshark
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Theatre of Consciousness 