Category Archives: life
Go west, young man
Now what I want you to do is visualize yourself… visualizing your data. Can you see it? Maybe you need some help? Fret not, I’m working on it! This week I moved from Florida to California to start work at … Continue reading
[RTPS] Master’s Thesis Defense Presentation
Hello World! Today I became a computational science ninja master! Well, maybe not so much the ninja part, but my vim skills are starting to feel like Jedi powers. This morning I gave an hour long presentation on my work … Continue reading
Silenced
This past weekend I attended Data Insight and hacked alongside a great group of people. Our team had a lot of fun and learned a lot by tackling a tough issue, child abuse. We used the statistics for 2002 from … Continue reading
LBL Summer Research: Report 1
Hello world! I’m excited to be writing to you from the beautiful Bay area in California, specifically the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the top of the hill in Berkeley. This summer I’ll be working with Hank Childs and the … Continue reading
class useless(xkcd):
Happy Valentines Day! with all due respect to the original classic
sleeping on the edge, hope i don’t toss and turn
It was the beginning of 2007 when I first heard about Normalized Google Distance being used for automatic translation and I started to understand how powerful linear algebra could be. I couldn’t understand the paper but I knew about the … Continue reading
oblivious
As a person with a high capacity for abstract thought, it makes sense that I may sometimes stay on some abstract plane (or train) of thought. When I’m programming or solving math problems, one could refer to this as being … Continue reading
digital divide: success!
It’s taken me over a month to do the write up, but Digital Divide had our first success! The event took place on February 28th at the Palmer Munroe Community Center. We taught 6 kids how to build 5 computers … Continue reading
random life lessons
Some life lessons you have to learn from experience, but it seems like no matter how many times you learn them you fail the quiz over and over. Skateboarding taught me two things. The first and most important was that … Continue reading
reorganize
A seemingly reoccurring problem is organizing information. I often have a lot of information I find useful for one thing or another, but I can’t always think of the best place to put it so I can save it for … Continue reading
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