Atlhack

This hack was on Tuesday 7 July 2009, right when you might imagine it would have been! Pardon for the delay in posting the notes.

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Rob:
– write a Technique article about Michael Jackson
– reading about the Dreamcast, for unknown reasons
– OK, really reading about games that feature MJ
– headed off to sing karaoke

Bill:
– tried to write some lyrics
– came up with some about being creative, and also Neil Armstrong and how reclusive he is.
– installed Chrome for Linux

Emily:
– read rss
– looked at stackoverflow

John:
– wrote tests for his webgame
– also read stackoverflow

Tripp:
– showed up!
– chatted with Alex
– discussing REST (etc) with John

Mark:
– made a sketch with Processing
– added notifications to Corkbird so he knows when somebody signs up

Alex:
– looking at a paper for CIKM
– excited about reviewing papers (woo!)
– talking about GWT with Tripp

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Rob:
– making art.
– made a four-color picture of Ric Flair, Warhol style!!
– We’ll put a link soon.

Mark:
– sent in a logo to the Freeside people
– tried to figure out Google Calendar API to integrate with an IRC bot

Lindsey and Alex:
– this week: competed in ICFP Contest 2009!!
– will blog about it soon
– maybe found a house
– tonight: Alex chilled out and read blogs, thought about typos

It’s hot and sweaty outside (and also in our brains) hack!

Bill:
– Chatted with Alex about netbooks, work, GIS systems, programming languages
– played some nethack

Emily:
– Tried to figure out why mongodb hates twitter (maybe having issues with the Twitpocalypse)
– Read some RSSs

Alex:
– worked on detecting some typos, found a pretty serious bug in the typo detect-o-matic
– so close to being done with this part of the detect-o-matic
– drank a lot of coffee

Lindsey (remote):
– yesterday, gave a talk at Beer ‘n’ Algorithms about Turing Machines with oracles and relativization. Notes here!

Alternating fits of intense concentration and socializing hack!

Rob:
– made a chiptune (“a chip-ette tune”)
– looked at stuff for school

Alex:
– detecting some typos: finishing up the feature generator, appreciating the parser setup
– 2009 Alex is a much better software engineer than 2006-2007 Alex
– chatted with Zach G and Lindsey

Lindsey:
– furious paper-writing session with Dave B; sudden inspiration struck
– triangular substitutions are awesome for implementing logical programming for Scheme

Sonali:
– working on javascript stuff for dayjob

Tejus:
– setting up development tools on the Ubuntu Netbook Remix install on his netbook
– chatting with Alex about Linux, Ubuntu, and netbooks

Mark:
– working on CorkBird!
– adding comments and ajax paging

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Met Lauren and Kyle (new members who don’t know it yet):
– getting into twitter, trying to get lots of twitter followers (they’re @LAliciaKeyz and @KYeasley).
– Cewebrity status imminent.

Rob
– Started setting up a wordpress blog
– LOAD THE SPACESHIP WITH THE ROCKET FUEL. Chopping up wrestling promo videos with Ableton.
– finding cs1315 really easy, thinking about Technology of Representation and open standards in history

Mark
– Building a processing sketch to make randomized maps of suburban neighborhoods. With the Voronoi algorithm.
– had dinner with his brother Paul

Alex
– setting up the adorable new laptop (Dell Mini 12 with Ubuntu 9.04), made a script to turn off touchpad so he doesn’t accidentally click on things while typing
– set up wiki pages to study for quals
– worked a little bit on typo detection

Lindsey
– finishing reading The Reasoned Schemer, which is proving to be illuminating about logic programming with Scheme
– starting in on Modern Operating Systems tonight!

Rob:

• almost done with the semester… ?
• chillaxing for the evening: blogs and scrabble.
• omfg: Lego Rock Band will have “The Final Countdown” by Europe

Mark:

• sent out alpha invites for Corkbird
• uploaded source code to bitbucket (which is an hg host)

Alex:

• saw a silly movie: Los Campeones de Lucha Libre
• made a post about Scala with GWT on Eclipse. “Technology sandwich!”

Mark’s Birthday Hack!

Mark:

• realized security situation for serializing corkbird state is going to be complicated; have to deal with applet security
• error reporting now works; this is good, since there are a lot of errors
• processing sketches use the default Java package, but you can’t import the default package, apparently — figuring out what to do about that

Emily:

• working on personal site (duien.com)
• it aggregates twitter and delicious, now it can pull new entries in

Alex:

• more code delving: figured out file format for new Twidor logs
• wants to rework his gross old Python code and update it so it works with new Twidor logs
• emailed out a bunch of questions to the group, concerned about training classifiers on keystrokes that have already been corrected

Lindsey:

• Helped write an assignment for c311, answered a bunch of questions at office hours.
• tonight: working on homework for Computational Complexity

Special President’s Day Hack.

Mark:

• got in to gradschool! gatech phd program ahoy!
• working on corkbird: uploading sketches works, but need to be fancier about pulling apart jars.
• close to demo-able state (it’s looking pretty sweet)

Tejus:

• making a signup form for scmple (www.scmple.com). It has a really cool ajax.
• Startup Riot is coming up on Wednesday, getting ready.

Alex:

• got into gradschool! Indiana phd program ahoy!
• answering emails, looking at some blogs
• polishing up old log-parsing code from miniqwerty research (typo-detection machine learning rides again!)