There were two interesting things I focused on this week at work:

• We are teaching a class for our customers this week, and will be running our software product for training purposes on several servers from Amazon Web Services. I wrote a ton of bash scripts to handle everything but the actual launching of the instances (even at the measly amount of ( Read more... )

This month I will have been with the company for ten years. This is way less unusual than in most other companies.

When one only works half-time, then a twelve hour day turns into half a week.

Lately I have been focusing a lot of my Java programming effort at work on web services. As some of you know, my Company is in many ways a LISP shop, and that has its good sides and its bad sides. Among the bad sides is that LISP is really a rather dated programming language design, and while it is Turing machines all the way down, there has also ( Read more... )

Question:What is a kid?Answer:A cute resource leech.
Welcome back to work, preetha_thinks!

I gave a brown bag at the Company today on my recent experiments with Amazon Web Services. It was well received.

Today, I managed to run Alchemy weight learning component on one of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud machines. I spent 34 cents getting through the tutorial and computing one Markov Logic Network; BlondKiwi gave me US$99.66 more to keep at it.

Here's the break-down:

• Amazon Simple Storage Services
  • US$0.01 for 1000 PUT or LIST requests (25 ( Read more... )

Today I learned-with the help of DoubleDave-how to train and test Alchemy-based Markov Logic Networks on a Condor cluster.

My specific problem was that I had to do k-times repeated k-fold cross validation of our representational model, and since my k was equal to 10, that meant I had to run a training/testing cycle of about 30 min duration 100  ( Read more... )

I spent three hours today, writing up a spreadsheet organized by date, project and project manager, that details all the high-level tasks that I worked on in the last 12 months (many of them under cmat's expert guidance).

Maybe I should become a consultant; workwise I am already a pinch-hitter anyway! I know that I am a Gemini, but this is getting ( Read more... )

I have now been part-time sys admin, after not being a sys admin really since 1989, for the company for about two weeks. We had some very bad luck, with an ice storm causing server damage and stuff. Tellingly, they are already talking about hiring a part time sys admin. I told them I was feeling more rusty than I had expected and super behind-the- ( Read more... )