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Tag Archives: python
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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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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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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A Rant on Reasonable Expectations
With the semester wrapping up, I feel my status as a teaching assistant for a computational modeling course compels me to address something that we’ve encountered off and on the past several months. I’ll let Condescending Wonka introduce it. He … Continue reading
A week of scripting
Before I launch into today’s rendition of “How I Spent A Week Doing Something Essential To My Research That Someone In Industry Could Have Done In 5 Minutes”, I wanted to remark on how, lately, this post has been seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming, The Lady, Travel
Tagged canvas, derivatives, drupal, drupal module, explosions, ffmpeg, github ftw, html5, html5 canvas, javascript, javascript is the devil, loud noises, more like multi-dimensional bs am i rite, morocco, multi-dimensional surfaces, oh god it's evolution, onward to morocco, optimization, particle swarm optimization, python, socks proxies will come in handy, transcoding video formats really sucks, why not call it flock of geese optimization, zencoder, zerg rush, zerg swarm
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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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A new year full of…MapReduce?
If you’re reading the title of this post and wondering what the crap I’m going on about, I’d like to share with you one of my favorite quotes from the wonderful, awesome, and fantastic PBS TV show Arthur: D.W.: “Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, Programming, Real Life, the fam, The Lady, Travel
Tagged arthur, arthur aka best tv show evar, autoregressive models, beat frequency, graphs, hadoop, illinois, mahout, mapreduce, matlab, morocco, nertz, nertz is the greatest card game evar, new years, python, quinn in morocco, revivals are inherently selfish on the part of the people who instigate them, technical report, we've nicknamed it the christmas conversion, we've nicknamed these instances in general "revivals"
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What’s going on, eh?
While the November weather was uncharacteristically calm in Pittsburgh, my schedule seems to be continuing its rampage toward an ever more chaotic and geographically-disparate frontier. As I struggle to pin down any sort of blogging schedule–much less a regular one–I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Exercise, Gaming, Graduate School, Holidays, lolcat, The Lady
Tagged analysis, apachecon, christmas, cilia, civilization, cmu, grant proposal, left 4 dead 2, mahout, obscure code, python, qatar, sins of a solar empire, thanksgiving, turkey trot 4m, vancouver, vancouver energizer 5k, videos, website
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Debugging and you!
I just completed an assignment for my machine learning class (which, in case you haven’t picked up from my lack of posting frequency, is a little challenging), for which I had a write a program that implements the concept of … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Programming
Tagged adaboost, and seriously don't weight your friends, boosting, debugging, don't try this at home kids, it's like that dumb facebook app top friends, machine learning, pretty much the worst analogy ever, Programming, python, seriously just bring in a few friends
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Theatre of Consciousness 