| OCaml link |
[Apr. 25th, 2011|10:11 pm] |
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| | Pasqua & Petrov, _In Conversation_ | ] |
This makes the case for functional programming reasonably well, and more importantly (IMHO) gives good programming advice as well.
<a href="http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/85>Yaron Minsky on using OCaml on Wall Street</a>
His example code is pretty clean; probably there's much more hideous stuff in practice. But it seems vaguely novel that a functional language is getting that sort of use. |
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| link I forgot |
[Mar. 1st, 2011|11:54 pm] |
I mentioned the idea of a written circuit board some time ago, and forgot to include the link:
Drawdio
I still haven't made a paper-and-pencil squirrel-cage rotor, although I think that would be sort of neat... |
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| Hogmanay, illness, paper circuitry |
[Jan. 3rd, 2011|11:04 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | elh, _Don't Ask_ | ] |
Hogmanay was fun, and probably was the best sound job I've done, so far; I am under the weather, though, and staying up late to do sound may have been unhelpful. I did get some R hacking done, though I stayed home. |
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| summer hols |
[Jul. 12th, 2010|11:08 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | REM, "Sweetness Follows" | ] |
Spent the previous week at English-Scottish Session. This was somewhat tiring, as it was hot, but fun - for me, the highlight was sitting in with Karen, Doug, and Susie. The music was also awesome, as usual.
Then, the Dog Days Ale, at which I was largely a groupie. I did play for some dances, though.
Time certainly flew... Now, more thesis-writing, or attempting to. |
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[May. 11th, 2010|10:05 pm] |
Am chugging away at the presentation. Am learning that the Gimp can be useful, but some obvious-seeming things are not at all easy; I don't know if Photoshop would be better. Today, I got a bunch of feedback from my peers, leading to what they call in the open-source software world a "major rewrite." The weekend is looking fairly busy, mostly in a good way, playing for Perdues' in particular - so I hope to have the slides settled by Sunday. |
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[May. 4th, 2010|11:04 pm] |
Finally got on the elliptical machine. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) phantomfiddler has advised that this may make it harder to sleep, but I feel that the endorphins have faded, so I should probably just try to rest. I'll see what happens, but I don't think I'm up for programming at the moment. |
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[May. 3rd, 2010|10:28 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | something by Ellington | ] |
I stayed up way too late working on my thesis proposal, and then was up early to do the presentation. Which did not go smoothly, As usual, I need to start working on such things earlier; but I did get some good feedback.
It's really hot; I don't know if I'll actually get back to using the elliptical machine tonight... |
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| good news, bad news |
[Apr. 14th, 2010|11:08 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
So, the good news is that I have my first committee meeting scheduled. And I'm spending next weekend not exactly at home (there are several gigs), but at least not out of town.
The bad news is that it's very soon, and my program is not working all that well.
And allergies seem to be kicking my ass, more than I would have expected. Hopefully it's not a cold. This is compounded by having gotten some four hours of sleep; bed has at least moved waaay up on my list of priorities. Redundant memo to self: getting up early, at the expense of sleep, is not productivity. |
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| geekiness |
[Mar. 22nd, 2010|10:03 pm] |
Sometime after lunchtime, the postdoc who's in charge of journal club reminded me that I'd signed up to present journal club this week, which is in fact tomorrow. Fortunately, it's not until late afternoon (and we get free dinner out of it, which is good.)
Fortunately, I had a lot of latitude in topic, so I picked a paper about something that seemed fairly cool (Raman spectromicroscopy; nothing to do with noodles :)) It allows measuring the concentrations of various small molecules, in living cells, or C. elegans, for that matter. The molecules in question in this paper are things like cholesterol and related substances. (Which persuaded me to snack on carrots and hummus, instead of, say, cheese, which is good, although I'm sure this is temporary.)
I don't understand the physics involved, and I think the equipment is impractically expensive (and far removed from what I've done so far), so it's kind of off-topic for me. But it's interesting, so that's good.
I've been slowly discovering the features of my phone (a Sanyo 2700, on CREDO mobile). I finally decided to look in the box for a data cable, and found -- the manual! I had no clue that to activate voice dialing, you just have to press the "talk" button for long enough... |
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| playing, dance, work |
[Mar. 21st, 2010|09:57 am] |
Playing for Perdues' on Friday went really well, and was fun. Unfortunately, I didn't have the right cables to record it. Contra medley last night was fun, although I was tired. Also, very surreal to see people in PowerJumperz just outside the hall.
The "work during the day, dance/play at night" continues. I theoretically should have a thesis committee meeting Real Soon Now (tm). I'm guardedly optimistic that I'll have at least some stuff implemented, and thus have something to talk about, although I may not have much in the way of results by then. C++ continues to be somewhat annoyinjg, but implementing typo, and then rewriting everything in that, doesn't really seem like a good plan...
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