I'm doing a medical blood test thing today, and it requires fasting for 10-12 hours before. But I wasn't hungry 12 hours before, so I'm actually fasting for 15 hours, and it's awfully annoying. Man, hunger makes it hard to concentrate ( Read more... )

My thesis has now reached 100 pages. That doesn't sound long, but this is the year they switched to single line spacing, so it's not quite a direct comparison.

My simulated robotic soccer behaviors are working! There's a lot still to do, but I actually got something working that took quite a bit of fiddling over quite a long span of time: my goalie actually caught the ball and blocked a shot! It's a nice piece of progress.

I'm TAing CogSci 1, and I'm responsible for creating / updating one of its labs. I didn't really like the lab we already had, so I spent 3 hours whipping up this little demo. It'll need a writeup, but you might be able to play with it already. I'm pleased, to be honest--it wasn't too much work, and I made a working tool! I think it'll be useful in ( Read more... )

Google: where I will work. I accepted the offer just now.

I haven't posted in nearly a month. But this has been the month of most of my job search, and I now have job offers. I need to choose, but I have some awfully good options. I have nearly 2 weeks to decide ( Read more... )

I have a scheduled on-site job interviews with [X] in early December, and I've got interest from [Y] and [Z], though visiting details with them need to be finalized ( Read more... )

I have now sent my resume to 5 different companies, including Willow Garage. I will do more, but it's a start.

God freaking dammit. I have had a series of hassles in getting a GSI (a.k.a. teaching assistant) position. First, they mistook my preference for TAing the undergrad AI class as a demand, so they weren't going to give me any work. Just yesterday, though, they found a graphics class for me to TA. However, today, they sent me the forms for it and I ( Read more... )

I've got a paper published in ICML 2008! You already know that, because I was already excited about going to Finland. But the final revision of the paper is finally complete and submitted to the conference, so I've put it up on my website, which you can see here. Yes, that means that my guinea pigs are now recorded for posterity in an academic