Apparently I only post these days when I have a lot of work to do. There are so many awesome adventures that I need to write up and haven't yet. We've tasted so many wines, gone hiking in beautiful places, gone on a long drive chasing the sunset and ended up on an elk preserve where the water looked frozen in place, watched some great (and some ( Read more... )

I've never considered myself as a minority in computer science. It never made sense to me when women complained that they had no one to talk to and felt like they weren't being taken seriously. How could a field where most inter-personal interaction consists of plain-text communication possibly care whether you are black, blue, or are plumbed(hmm ( Read more... )

For at least the next quarter, I'm a member of the SSRC Lab at UCSC. I have my very own cube in SSRC, and my ID card now opens all sorts of doors ( Read more... )

I'm sure I used to know that the Macbook Pro Core Duo could only handle 2G of memory, but I just wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why I couldn't get my 2G and 1G sticks to play nice together. ::sigh:: I was really hoping to put off upgrading for a while, but 2G of memory is just not enough. I guess I need to get some sort of real job ( Read more... )

Dijsktra may be a jerk when writing papers, but, based on the 1996 commencement speech he gave at UT Austin, he's a jerk after my own heart, and I owe his ghost an apology. (link thanks to ikarpov).

( Excerpts from the Speech )

I need the name of a band who is currently touring, is likely to be on tour for at least the next few months, tends to put up upcoming tour information in something easy to read (RSS/Atom would be fantastic), and allows people to submit videos of concerts to YouTube. Ideally, there would be a couple past concert clips already on YouTube, but that's ( Read more... )

At the end of June, I packed up and left my apartment in Albuquerque, NM with much help from shamiksan, thumbie, and pabw.

( Leaving Albuquerque )

I just got asked to peer review a paper for a fairly big machine learning journal...

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AVANI
ALBUQUERQUE
NM
87111
UNITED STATES

Dear AVANI:

I regret to convey to you that your application for admission to UC Santa Barbara has been denied by the Department of Computer Science ( Read more... )

Avani: I'm getting log likelihoods of -600 >_< ... I wanna take this data out back and shoot it.
S.D.: I'm told that hanging up hard disk platters and shooting them with guns is really quite fun.
Avani: Mmmmm; That sounds fantabulous
Avani: I'm totally proposing it for inclusion in our research budget
S.D.: Budget line item: $800-- 30. ( Read more... )