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Day 24: Really, CMU?
I give you an A for effort, but I’m quite sure that every single one of those memes is used incorrectly. Generously, I give you 50% on the victory kid meme. So basically, you got 0.5 / 5 correct. Surely there … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Photo, Internet, lolcat
Tagged "but it's so much fun to stay out of the IM leagues--NO", "joined an IM league. met my future wife.", "oh you've never joined an IM team? tell me again how you're staving off the freshman 15", carnegie mellon, cmu, cmu uc, see? those are just a few examples of how to use those memes correctly
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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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“We need to have empathy”
It may not be well-advertised, but if asked directly I make no secret of the fact that one of the most interesting things in the world to me is humanity. We fall everywhere on every single spectrum, both disgustingly predictable … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Articles, Graduate School, Real Life
Tagged carnegie mellon, debate, fraternity, gaussian distribution, georgia tech, gray areas define us, gridlock, intellectual, logic, machine learning, passion, phd, Politics, president, psychology today, statistics, university of virginia
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Our Cold Dig
Even though we’ve spent the better part of the last week digging ourselves out of the mess that was Snowmageddon 2010 (I stil contend it is the angry, unloved twin of the Blizzard of 1993, or Storm of the Century … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Programming, Real Life
Tagged after all armageddon actually means unveiling, carnegie mellon, commencement, cornell, graduate schools, mit, mwcms, phd programs, princeton, research, snowmageddon is actually a really dumb name, some of the stranger pictures ive seen from google street view, speaking of google have you tried out buzz yet, unc, uva, visitation weekends, wolfram alpha is amazing but not skynet
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The next step
It seems like I was only just applying to graduate programs in anticipation of leaving the familiar surroundings of Georgia Tech to go gallivanting off to my next academic adventure. And yet, here I am again: with my M.S. degree … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life
Tagged blogs, carnegie mellon, cdc, cognition therapeutics, computational biology, computer science, geektacular, georgia tech, Graduate School, lolcat, merrick furst, personal statement, phd, politics permeats every level of society, research, resume, robert murphy, science fair, student bloggers, why are you so awesome, why is this school so awesome, why were your awesome self and this awesome school made for each other
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More futuristic discussion
Wait for it, wait for it… Now that I have your attention, I’d like to share where I’m thinking I’ll be at this time next year. As I will be graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a master’s degree this coming … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged academia, atm machine, bioinformatics, carnegie mellon, computational biology, cornell, georgia tech, Graduate School, i cannot describe how difficult it was to write this without wigging out about awesomeness, IBM, jobs, mit, pc computer, pin number, sgu, stargate universe, syfy
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I had to tell an MBA to GTFO
Summer’s over, fall is here, and everything that entails is already in full swing. I won’t go into detail, but I will leave you with this bloopers clip I put together in the days after I left Raleigh but before … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, extremeblue, lolcat, movies, The Lady
Tagged !astroturfing, astrophysics, Blogging, bloopers, carnegie mellon, cms, cmu, computational modeling, css, extremeblue, gotta love academia, html, IBM, machine learning, quantum physics, slif, stars and galaxies, thesis research, web application development
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Can’t wake up early enough? Write a program!
Last semester, sometime around October or November (whenever it was that registration opened), I had armed myself with an incredible schedule for Spring 2009: two out of my three core computational biology courses (710 and 711), and a course in … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Technology
Tagged carnegie mellon, cmu, curl, get, html, http, key-value, php, post, regex, registering for web apps by writing a web app, registration, regular expressions, ssl, ssl certificate, webiso
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For 24 hours, I am a stud
My girlfriend in particular has been enjoying this (short) period of time, during which I have been readily admitting that I am a stud muffin and a badass mofo. Why, you ask? Well…I haven’t publicized it here very well, but … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged carnegie mellon, extremeblue, IBM, internships, interviews, jaclyn decicco, network nights, new york, north carolina, quickr, research triangle park
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Theatre of Consciousness 