19 June 2007 – Haskellnacht
new people:
Matt – Alex’s friend enrolling in MS mechanical engineering.
Asok – dude from the information retrieval company.
Since Last Week-
Mark- performed at electro-music 2007! learned chuck, wrote chuck bluegrass
-writing code to fold fabric in processing
-ran with Graham to Decatur
Greg- measured the volume of powder with helium gas
Alex- built first interactive demo of spelling correction on java + twidor
-exported classifier from WEKA, hooked it all up.
-hard part was python file wrapping up feature data and feed to classifier
-camp! teaching kids the python.
Will- to be hired by a contracting company working for a beverage company
-programmed a genetic algorithm in MATLAB, optimized a 1d cellular automata
-optimized it by feedback, how long a human would watch it
-reading Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near
Graham- added live performance sampling stuff to Mused
This week-
Mark- learning Haskell
Alex- learning Haskell
Graham- learning Haskell
Will- reading Kurzweil
we were using GHC and The Gentle Introduction to Haskell