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Hackfest 1111100

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Notes!

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

Hackfest 1100101

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Since last week…
Erik: "Nothing! On purpose!" … Erik is largely On Vacation.
Alex: Been working on the documentation browser thing for code-google-com, which is no longer secret! He’ll make everybody take a     look at it when it launches, which is Soon. Also been working on the scrabble bot. And he got some cool anagram code from ZachG. Also, paper based on his masters work got into CHI.
Humza: Reading the new Lawrence Lessig book.

Tonight…
Alex: Looking for good information about event loops and callbacks in JavaScript, particularly on IE, where there’s occasional reentrancy weirdness.
Erik: Relaxing.
Humza: www.freerice.com, talking about Arabic linguistics — and culture and language in general, Sapir-Whorf.
Wadner: (the r is silent) … spoke with Humza about culture and identity, online and off.

(where is everybody?)