The masters’ project: turned in this morning. As with so many things, not what we originally envisioned, and not as good as we might have imagined … but it’s done, and the yeoman’s work we put in over the last two weeks shows, I think. Our advisor seems to genuinely think we did okay, so [...]
Via a short post by the pithy, marvelous Paul Ford: Why We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless Web Data [...] Dr. Biederman first showed a collection of photographs to volunteer test subjects, and found they said they preferred certain kinds of pictures monkeys in a tree or a group of houses along a river [...]
Heading down to DC Our masters project is due in a week. So of course I’m on a Greyhound bus heading down to Silver Spring for 24 hours, solo, carrying a pile of gear and thankful beyond words for the social network I’ve got. When I found out only last night exactly where the event [...]
The treadmill of the second semester here has been ratcheted up several degrees of incline and had the speed noticeably increased. I’m feeling mentally breathless. Lots of projects and pieces are coming together at the very last minute, and while this hasn’t bitten me (badly) yet, I’m just waiting for something to completely fail with [...]
Went out with friends Saturday night; I’m trying to reserve one night a week to do something social, just to take my head briefly away from journalism. We went back to Szechuan Gourmet. Most of the things we ordered were excellent, but one thing that Brian ordered near the end of the meal (a dish [...]