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