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Tag Archives: lolcat
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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CPU ubiquity
There was this fantastic poll on Slashdot recently (ok, most of their polls are awesome) that really makes you consider just how ubiquitous computers have become, and to what phenomenal degree we take them for granted. In honor of this … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Hardware, Internet, lolcat, Polls, Real Life, Technology
Tagged apparently ubiquitous has become colloquial, computers, cpu, do the rock band components have processors in them too, im almost positive hard drives have cpus in them, it aint hardcore unless its hexacore, lolcat, megagigabyte son, since i dont own the washer or dryer im not counting those, terrorize the processation, ubiquity, video cards have gpus so im not sure if that single letter difference matters
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How (not?) to run a half-marathon
Over the Thanksgiving break, Cathryn and I ran our first half-marathon! I’m super glad I did it. It wasn’t pretty, but now that I have the experience I can prepare better for the next one (and there will indeed be … Continue reading
Sum of small numbers
This is an interesting concept to me, as its applicability is endless. Remember your high school / college calculus courses? Remember Taylor/Maclaurin/power series? Remember the whole thing about summing an infinite series of numbers together, and posing the question of … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School
Tagged can't stand glenn beck, chomp chomp chomp, evolution, fallacy, fallacy of composition, fallacy of division, heuristic, infinite sums, lolcat, machine learning, maclaurin series, master's thesis, rule of thumb, similar things behave similarly, small change in input, small change in output, taylor series, testable hypothesis
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Merry Christmahanukwanzaramadanukkah to all!
I hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful Christmas morning, and is having a fabulous holiday season with friends, family, and loved ones. 🙂
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
I’m finally back in Atlanta. The semester, oddly enough, wrapped up pretty well; still waiting on my thesis research grade to come in, but otherwise – all things considered – I can’t really mark it as anything but a success. … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Technology
Tagged amazon, astrophysics, christmahannukwanzaromadonakka, computational biology, hibernate pwnd me then i returned the favor, lolcat, once you know you newegg, phd applications, protein localization, thesis research, web applications, winter, wish lists
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Literally pulling 25-hour days
I promise I’m still alive! Just trapped beneath the avalanche of final semester coursework and research, plus polishing off my PhD applications. Here is an accurate portrayal of my current situation:
Posted in Academics, lolcat
Tagged all nighters, and yet im having a blast, Blogging, brb, endless research, final projects, lolcat
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What’s in a name?
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet There are some things that we, as human beings, are inherently better at doing than others. We’re masters of survival, brilliant at short-term planning, extremely … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, lolcat, random
Tagged a rose is a rose is a rose, categories, change, cosmos, david wong is a freaking genius, human, i love humanity in all its complexity, labels, logical fallacy, lolcat, monkeh, monkeysphere, philosophy, simplify simplify simplify except in the case of oversimplification, strengths and weaknesses, transience, turtles all the way down, waxing philosophical, we are contradictions
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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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Theatre of Consciousness 