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
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
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
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
Zach
- working on a reading aid for ADD folks
- displays a file and highlights groups of words at a time
- - to prevent distraction
- - it's written in swing
- - based on ideas from a speed-reading app
Tejus
- worked on server config for choices-quilts
- installed ruby on centos 4
Sonali
- working on the new rails version of choices-quilts
- having trouble with the "will_paginate" plugin
Lindsey
 - went to my college reunion in Iowa
- - saw family, saw friends, saw Alex, video blogged about it
 - learned about the law of "conservation of ream" from my Harvey Mudd
alum housemate
 - won NaRoRuMo 2008
 - finally making headway on SICP again; end of chapter 1 in sight
Rob
- being quiet
Martin
- working on apparent (the apartment finder)
- going to keep the birthdate of the craigslist posts
- - rather than repull listings from the database at each step
Mark
- researching datetime formatting and parsing
- - found a bunch of libraries in python/perl/javascript
- is going to write some code for parsing English text
- - representing repeated date events (like, every Tuesday from 8 to midnight)
Erik
- maintaining code, yay?
Alex
- working on the jython-in-an-applet-talking-to-javascript project
- - can call from js to applet, and back
- - but keeps getting security exceptions
Other people at Octane: Humza, Ashok, Ashok's brother (Alok), Samir, Alice, Mike, Dan
Alok is taking the JES class with Monica Sweat
Discovered that Ashok (and Alok) are not Indian, but Nepali
Zach
- working on a reading aid for ADD folks
- displays a file and highlights groups of words at a time
- - to prevent distraction
- - it's written in swing
- - based on ideas from a speed-reading app
Tejus
- worked on server config for choices-quilts
- installed ruby on centos 4
Sonali
- working on the new rails version of choices-quilts
- having trouble with the "will_paginate" plugin
Lindsey
 - went to my college reunion in Iowa
- - saw family, saw friends, saw Alex, video blogged about it
 - learned about the law of "conservation of ream" from my Harvey Mudd
alum housemate
 - won NaRoRuMo 2008
 - finally making headway on SICP again; end of chapter 1 in sight
Rob
- being quiet
Martin
- working on apparent (the apartment finder)
- going to keep the birthdate of the craigslist posts
- - rather than repull listings from the database at each step
Mark
- researching datetime formatting and parsing
- - found a bunch of libraries in python/perl/javascript
- is going to write some code for parsing English text
- - representing repeated date events (like, every Tuesday from 8 to midnight)
Erik
- maintaining code, yay?
Alex
- working on the jython-in-an-applet-talking-to-javascript project
- - can call from js to applet, and back
- - but keeps getting security exceptions
Other people at Octane: Humza, Ashok, Ashok's brother (Alok), Samir, Alice, Mike, Dan
Alok is taking the JES class with Monica Sweat
Discovered that Ashok (and Alok) are not Indian, but Nepali
Scott Driscoll (previously)
- writing Matlab code for a freelance project
- has been selling robotics kits to Make magazine
Lindsey
- work: daily insane perl refactoring sprees
- running: daily
- - on track to hit 100 miles for the month
- should perhaps consider occasionally doing things other than work and running
Alex
- stretch goal: put a python REPL into a browser using jython and an applet
- - talked with Lex Spoon about this
- talking with Zach about compilers and byte-code interpreters
- running daily
Rob
- wrote an outline of making the wiibow
- - with glovepie + puredata
- organizing his workflow paradigm desktop
Martin
- hacking on apparent
- - improving query performance by indexing apartments geohash (not the xkcd geohash)
Mark
- trying to make Processing allow Java 1.5 syntax
- - getting segfaults
- should have stuck to playing with geomerative
- biked to Stone Mountain yesterday
- made tiny animations in Flash and Photoshop
Scott Driscoll (previously)
- writing Matlab code for a freelance project
- has been selling robotics kits to Make magazine
Lindsey
- work: daily insane perl refactoring sprees
- running: daily
- - on track to hit 100 miles for the month
- should perhaps consider occasionally doing things other than work and running
Alex
- stretch goal: put a python REPL into a browser using jython and an applet
- - talked with Lex Spoon about this
- talking with Zach about compilers and byte-code interpreters
- running daily
Rob
- wrote an outline of making the wiibow
- - with glovepie + puredata
- organizing his workflow paradigm desktop
Martin
- hacking on apparent
- - improving query performance by indexing apartments geohash (not the xkcd geohash)
Mark
- trying to make Processing allow Java 1.5 syntax
- - getting segfaults
- should have stuck to playing with geomerative
- biked to Stone Mountain yesterday
- made tiny animations in Flash and Photoshop
What we've been doing
Megan:
- translating blogs
- writing midterms
Anna Marie:
- midterms
Erik:
- tried five things, ended up reverting all of them
- - "i guess my head's not very clear"
- added a calendar to aloe
- - for bills and invoices
Martin:
- recentering the apartment-finder map
Mark:
- released a new version of the Eclipse plugin at work
- writing pseudocode for an asynchronous language for building interfaces
Alex:
- sudoku solver in python
- - his python is better than two years ago
- gears-ing his app at work
What we've been doing
Megan:
- translating blogs
- writing midterms
Anna Marie:
- midterms
Erik:
- tried five things, ended up reverting all of them
- - "i guess my head's not very clear"
- added a calendar to aloe
- - for bills and invoices
Martin:
- recentering the apartment-finder map
Mark:
- released a new version of the Eclipse plugin at work
- writing pseudocode for an asynchronous language for building interfaces
Alex:
- sudoku solver in python
- - his python is better than two years ago
- gears-ing his app at work