Archive for October, 2007

Hackfest 1011101

Friday, October 26th, 2007

New Member:
Bob:
is learning AutoLisp,
“this is the future!”
Lisp Recorder – records actions as lisp code,
was at the Books concert last spring,
Marta story (appended)

Since Last Time:
Tejus:
started a job
Sonali:
work and setting up the house
Alex:
thinking about the z-machine,
youtube for interactive fiction,
reading the z-machine spec,
working with Martin

Tonight:
Tejus:
installing suse in paralels on his mac
making a blog in seamless
Sonali:
finishing projects for choices quilts in ruby on rails
Alex:
coc mail forwarding,
new atlhack server configuring
Erik:
fixed a horrible awful bug with the facebook app he made last week,
making a logo for a potential finance app
Mark:
reinstalling postgres, pure-ruby bindings

Bob’s Marta Story:
i was sitting on the train,
still in engineering mode,
i had been working out the geometry of making a sprial,
and was kind of spaced out,
and the girl next to me looked at what i was drawing,
and said “that looks pretty cool”
and she was on the the phone with her boyfriend and he says:
“is his hand on your p***y”
“honey, you’re on speakerphone”
“i don’t give a damn, is his hand on your p***y”

It should be noted that Gabi dislikes this word.

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Thursday, October 18th, 2007

18 Oct 2007 – more since last two weeks

Since Last Time:

chuck-sharing-site: more of the interface working, bit by bit.
-learned how to use java.sql PreparedStatement objects

research: gave a talk to a student seminar
-Adaptive Effects using STFT, Source-Filter Model, Verfaille DAFx04
-and how it relates to my research topic
-have a first-pass at my research topic

This week:
will translate words in my Catalan recipe book

much love to the laptop battlers

Hackfest 1011100

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Highly synchronized week!
Since last Time:
    Nate:
        attended Bar Camp Atlanta,
    Mark:
        accepted job at Appcelerator
        attended Bar Camp Atlanta,
        showed off some wiimote/chuck sound generation
    Erik:
        facebook platform
    Tejus:
        accepted job at Appcelerator
        attended Bar Camp Atlanta,
        presented his MDX and datawarehousing work
    Kelly:
        started writing a book about every terrible thing she has ever done,
        practiced french kissing her little brother when she (or he?) was five,
        not going to have a pen name,
        probably the beginning of the end of her livelihood
    Stuart:
        has made a big decision,
        going to persue a second masters: finance,
        connection between libertarianism and rush
       
Tonight:
    Nate:
        showing Wamily codebase to Erik
    Mark:
        installing Aptana, RadRails
        reinstalling postgresql82 with darwinports
    Erik:
        discusssing Wamily
    Tejus:
        getting vijedi working again,
        comment notification,
        realized that he had turned off postfix
    Will:
        reading a business book on sales
    Jason:
        reading a business book on marketing
    Kelly:
        needs an atlhack account

Hackfest 1011011

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

New Member:
    Nate:
        working on startup: Wamily
        make-your-own social-network with widgets
        targeted at young people, customizable
        Emory graduate, wants to move to the valley
        runs Ubuntu, uses RadRails

Since last Time:
    Erik:
        working on pipaya
    Kelly:
        read a lot of books:
        "lilith’s brood" – about alien sex, a trilogy
        "you shall know our velocity"
        "children of men", "solaris",
        wrote one of the most powerful introductions to a paper that she’s ever written
    Drew:
        painting a mural of a mountain lion, a rabbit, and a pig,
        in the baby’s eventual room,
        working on gnarly legacy projects,
        things that were once considered a good idea
    Mark:
        moved into a house in decatur,
        processing sketch of fuzzy ellipse ray-tracing,
        read about juno-2 constraint system
    Alex:
        watched another machine learning lecture,
        reading about linear algebra,
        ada-boost, support vector machines, bagging
    Zach:
        BEST robot,
        designing spellchecking algorithms
    Joe:
        week of Tex-Mex, tonight Taco Bell
    Rob:
        configuring his keytar,
        put knobs for the keytar
    Gregg:
        making and repairing lamps in his house,
        found on the side of the road, rusted out,
        spent three hours searching for a lamp shade
    Stuart:
        finished design,
        will be sent to the photolithography place,
        will start production in a few weeks
    Tejus:
        etl (extract-transform-load), pictures

Tonight:
    Erik:
        working/talking with Nate
    Kelly:
        reading "you shall know our velocity"
    Drew:
        working on his legacy projects,
        feeling guilty about not working on oilrig
    Nate:
        working/talking with Erik
    Mark:
        preparing bar camp presentation,
        feeling guilty about not working on oilrig,
        taking lots of notes
    Alex:
        teaching about machine learning,
        "the kernel trick"
    Zach:
        learning about machine learning
    Joe:
        cranking voter files,
        reading about postgress internals,
        partial indicies
    Rob:
        likes being able to move around while music-making
    Gregg:
        sketching
    Jim:
        reading film textbook
    Stuart:
        "you can exert some physicality" – to rob about keytar,
        explaining photolith materials to mark,
        work on a song, drinking tea

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Sunday, October 7th, 2007

2 Oct 2007 – more bcn solo-hacking

Since Last Week:
-worked on Chuck sharing website, got demo running

This Week:
-building a running prototype, got db connection, need to add file upload

Hackfest 1011010 Mortem

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Since Last Time:
    Erik:
        releasing an app that converts a rhapsody-listening-feed to last.fm,
        rhobbler.com
    Mark:
        books: "Japanese for Busy People 2",
        "Domain-Driven Design", "Beautiful Code"
        learned some with scala (jvm-based functional language)
    Alex:
        triangular wave weekend,
        watching machine learning tutorial online,
        plsa = probabilistic latent semantic analysis,
    John:
        is building an outliner,
        may use google gears,
        will return with gwt questions for alex
    Rob:
        played a show at parkgrounds
    Stuart:
        doing research,
        working on the new album,
        due by the end of the month

Tonight:
    Erik:
        the server is good now
    Mark:
        reading papers about haskell,
        writing a soft constraint solver in nodebox
    Alex:
        has a stack of papers from acm portal,
        wants to learn statistics (and thus R),
        wants to learn linear algebra (and thus Matlab)
    John:
        discussing ajax,gwt,xaml,silverlight,flash
        no internet, so he goes home
    Rob:
        preparing for laptop battle,
        going to learn reason tonight,
        it’s what stuart uses, and rob likes the cheese
    Will:
        explaining how CAD programs do geometric constraints,
        degrees of freedom
    Stuart:
        hanging out