January 1st, 2009
New Years Hacking
present: Graham, Lindsey, Alex, Alsie, Mark
Graham started on MSL,
his domain-specific language for mosaicing,
distracted by interactive fiction “violet”
he’s postponed the interactive fiction he’s writing about his research group (for the moment)
Lindsey is reading “Algorithms in a Nutshell”
Alex is looking at some Haskell
Mark making header images for atlhack.org,
randomly displaying them, writing SQL to copy tags from Drupal to WordPress
distracted by showing Alsie his collection of neat photos from the internet
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December 22nd, 2008
22 Dec 2008 - special session
Several aspects of our plans fell through. We ate dinner at Mark’s house and were about to leave 9ish, but Octane closed at 9. Emily suggested we go to Inman Perk. We did and later continued the meeting at Mark’s house.
present- Graham, Mark, Rob, Emily, Richard, and Alberto.
Mark and Emily discussed the existence of evil.
Rob is installing XP on his audio machine.
Graham worked on an elevator in Inform 7.
Mark is making something in processing.
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July 29th, 2008
Dez: (new member)
- Rails programmer
- started as a designer
- working on a Basecamp-like app
- wants something bigger than the default Rails scaffolding
- - but smaller than ActiveScaffold
- talking with Ashok and Erik about hosting providers
Zach:
- working on BigNum class in java
- talking with Alex about two’s complement
- figuring out how to draw transparent rectangles in swing
- - using that knowledge for the speed reader
Alex:
- looking at Logo
- - it’s an acceptable LISP
- - wrote a scheme version of this logo program
- went to OSCON
- learning Haskell
Lindsey:
- went to OSCON
- packed all her stuff
- - leaving Thursday from Portland to Indiana
- might be learning Haskell
Ashok:
- memorization app
- reading hitchiker’s guide
- trying to run call of duty in wine, didn’t work for him
- had a dream about fonts and OCR
- - next project will be about OCR for entering medical forms
Mark:
- working on geomerative
- - fixed a bug this weekend (that he had created)
- needs to get the courage to write the meshing code
- made bagels from Yuna’s recipe
Erik:
- adding RSpec’s for his work project
- talking about migrations, his model-based permission system
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July 23rd, 2008
erik:
- posting a new rails plugin
- - acts_as_referenced
mark:
- trying to make the jaxer/appcelerator thing work
- working on the new atlhack.org blog
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July 23rd, 2008
- icfp 08
- - alex,lindsey
- - - hacked in scheme, upstairs at monroe dr
- - - learned how to do sockets in scheme
- - - lindsey got lots of traffic to her blog due to icfp mailing-list posts
- - -
- - erik, mark, martin
- - - hacked in python, used mercurial, at the kitchen table on monroe dr
- - - wrote PID and lots of geometry, used twisted
- - - mercurial was a disaster, in part due to us trying to push to a shared repository (with an ssh url)
alex:
- datamining class continues
- going to oscon next week
lindsey:
- did inheritance in scheme for the first time (during icfp)
- going to oscon next week
rob:
- played with sketchup, going to plan his room in 3d
erik:
- configuring vim
- redesigning his blog, going minimalist
mark:
- restyling his blog
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July 23rd, 2008
sonali:
- new choices quilt beta, testing
erik:
- wrote a plugin http://subwindow.com/articles/22
- rode his bike to octane
tejus:
- fixing skyblox/yahoo-maps/loading-order
mark:
- helping tejus with skyblox/yahoo-maps/loading-order
- contributed to geomerative http://github.com/rikrd/geomerative/tree/ea03e4af61fe3721453e2b9609a91798dd4231c0
- created a patch that allows pyd/celerid to run on os x http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=20219
lindsey:
- hanging out in atlanta
- seven problems away from finishing chapter one of sicp
- created a programming challenge http://lindseykuper.livejournal.com/265703.html
alex:
- looking into scheme
- srfi, a bigger standard library (some from olin shivers) http://srfi.schemers.org/
- gave a talk to children at gatech
- discovered ‘disassemble’ command in lisp
- did lindsey’s challenge, in python and scheme
ashok:
- excited about freenet, anonymous + distributed storage networks
- providing html + dreamweaver help to alice
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July 23rd, 2008
we were here, but we failed to record what we did, sorry
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July 23rd, 2008
Lindsey:
- 3 work days left (!) before summer vacation
- - down to 2 things (!) on The Todo List That Refused To Die
- signed lease (!) on an apartment in Bloomington!
- will probably be chipping away at SICP for all eternity
Alex:
- doing a little bit of homework from http://www.stats202.com, learning R
- R is pretty cool.
- been reading about data mining, for that same class
- working on the OLPC, tried to get Ubuntu going with fairly
complicated instructions
- got Debian going with “olpc-update debian-big”. May install Edubuntu
with similar command.
Stuart:
- going to Switzerland soon
- working in the cleanroom
- - (we watched him from http://grover.mirc.gatech.edu/cameras/ )
Martin:
- apartment finder
- - automatically deleting listings
- - the bay area is full of scams
- - where houses for sale are posted as cheap rentals
Mark:
- published Appcelerator Routes
Erik:
- writing rails plugins
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June 17th, 2008
Notes!
Lindsey:
- 8 work days left before summer vacation
- - down to 6 things on The Todo List That Refused To Die
- found an apartment in Bloomington!
- *still* chipping away at SICP
Martin:
- working on apparent (http://apparentaa.appspot.com/)
- that’s about it
Ashok:
- working on study guide flash-card app
- on own server
- lots of reading to understand algorithms: general techniques to optimize people’s retention
Alex:
- looked "A Fast Algorithm for Learning a Ranking Function from Large-Scale Data Sets"
- it’s got a lot of math
- started working on online course: http://www.stats202.com
- little bit of Scheme with Lindsey
- dithering around on the internets
Mark:
- hiking the AT
Humza:
- lots of rock climbing, hands are tired
- thinking about getting into Python
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June 10th, 2008
New Member: Dustin
- went to school at RISD
- rock-climbs with Humza
- joking about a movie where:
- - a man who burns other people’s copies of comics to make his copy more rare
- making Flash animations for Intel + Beijing Olympic ads
- partway through watching tekkonkinkreet
Drew:
- trying to get on the network
- getting into AMQP
- - similar to JMS (which he uses at work)
Lindsey:
- 13 work days left before summer vacation
- - down to 8 things on The Todo List That Refused To Die
- looking for an apartment in Bloomington!
- still chipping away at SICP
- - trying to finish chapter 1 exercises by the end of the month
Martin:
- working on Tyrus’s “flipping coasts” app
- - for keeping in touch with people after he moves
Erik:
- wrote code for adding negative captchas to rails apps
- not as excited by phusion passenger as tejus is
Rob:
- configuring his (thinkpad-mac) to do japanese (kotoeri) input
- �ん����
Alex:
- reading Graham’s DAFX paper
- can’t do classloading (which jython needs) in an applet
- - wrote a blog post about it
- - to which Frank W. (big Jython guy at Sun)
- wrote some schema
- thinking metrics for how good a regression fit is
Ashok:
- says that Knuth doesn’t believe in unit-tests
Mike:
- researching how to get high-speed internet to his rural small-town
- - so that his younger brother can be part of internetdom
Mark:
- reading Graham’s DAFX paper
- chattering
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