Atlhack

Graham:
– finished writing dafx paper
– going to work on organizing dafx contest
– contact me if you want to race your audio effects
– should be doing Mused, but still settling in to new place
– moved to C/ Sardenya, 96, 3o 1o

Martin:
– tabs in dimwit
– using a lot of mixin templates

Kelley:
– going to interview a beekeeper next week
– – who is friends with the goddess

Erik:
– went to a 12-inning Braves game
– frustrating stuff with rails and marshalling objects
– – might try json
– is building a snazzy ajax datatable

Drew:
– scene transition for stochasm/roboto
– hacked on layout of tiles
– playing with amazon ec3 at work

Mark:
– working on the onomatopoeia editor for stochasm
– still refactoring ruby at work

Alex and Lindsey are off in Japan somewhere. They ran the marathon on Sunday.

Kelley
– got a new macbook
– interviewed a priestess for the next creative loafing
– interview with mayor slash funeral directory to be published tomorrow
– a little bit in love with the XO laptop
Graham
– met with b.w.thompson in Barcelona
– working on paper for DAFX in Finland
– fixed a bug today
– – which hopefully yields great glory and trip to Finland
Erik
– just stuff
– blogged a rant on subwindow
– got a bunch of comments
– retracted rant
Martin
– working on dimwit (code editor written in D and python)
– making windows splittable
Alex
– finished reading Mythical Man-Month, still reading sicp
– playing with the OLPC
– got excited about emulating a Mac Plus, was running mini vMac
– -fun but not long-term productive
– got even more excited about NLTK
– – wants to integrate that and maybe ConceptNet into a new poetry bot and text-remixer…
– thinking about crowdsourcing
– next week, will be hacking from Japan with lindseykuper
Lindsey
– got an XO laptop
– brought the XO to Code n’ Splode
– – and got it to play with Audrey‘s XO
– found out that Portland has an XO user group!
 – updated Shoebox Full of Tapes
 – basically finished training for the marathon
 – got VPN working for more people at work, finally
 – with all of the above, has trouble finding time to write code for work, let alone for play
Mark
– figured out how to turn on channel logging for #appcelerator (on freenode)
– writing quadratic equation in yonth (harder than it sounds)
– refactoring lots of ruby code at work
– – would like an automatic refactoring: “take the seven argument function and make an object from the arguments that can be passed around instead”

Martin:
– writing basic backend code for the D text-editor
– code-named “dimwit”: “D language plus my state of intelligence”
– thought about how to edit really large files
Alex:
– reading sicp and mythical man month
– needs a good side project
– working on gears and docreader features
– was introduced to unix’s “select” call (for networking) in high school
– it’s in the main loop of circle-mud
– which was the first big c program he worked on
Lindsey:
– visited the Oregon coast
– went hiking in the mud
– had breakfast with old undergrad CS adviser SamR
– – who showed off DrFu, which integrates DrScheme with Script-Fu for GIMP
– ran 21.1 miles with Alex
– – didn’t die
– finally made VPN work on her shiny new macbookpro at work
– – thus thwarting the IT department’s attempts to prevent work from being done
– alex did these things too, where it makes sense for him to do them
Rob:
– investigating MIDI standards,
– wants to understand MIDI for use in Max/MSP
– downloading patches for the CZ1 (a badass Casio)
– – for learning sound synthesis
– will eventually make your voice with the Casio
– – which will not be like Stephen Hawking speaking
Erik:
– building this “thing”, perhaps unwisely
– extending symbol in activerecord to make things more terse
– hard to explain
– for creating tables of datat
Kelley:
– reading “Lovely Bones”
Mark:
– reading about scala and java interoperability, sounds messy
– went to pycon
– – learned aboutSaturday House (which is similar to atlhack)
– – learned about robust, distributed backup systems (mozy and allbydata)
– contributed to Drew’s “Miru” project
Drew:
– went to pycon
– hacked on Miru
– hacked on excitebike clone: “baiku”
Cary:
– went to pycon
– worked on baiku
– worked on his anarchic content creation system
Alex (Ray):
– annotating the root pitch of recording of indian classical music
– so that they can feed them into the big system
– get pitch class distr
– attempt at reccomendation engine
– mark godfrey is working on this
– finds neighbors based on features
– comparing pitch based and timbral features
– tunes sine wave oscillator, get it basically correct, the click next
– – over and over again
– – boring
– listening machine is coming up (april 20something)
– – working on “mridangam” listener/improvisor
– – which listens
– – which will do fancy algorithms to play something else back
– went to spark festival
– – played a set, and played with parag

Hackfest 1101111
Erik:
– working on stellar
– irked by the way ruby’s “require” is relative to the root/parent script,
– thinks it should be relative to the current script (like python, says mark)
– first stellar app running!
– using HAML
Martin:
– embedding python into D
– generating D bindings
– will make a text-editor using a combination of D and python
– started at Appcelerator
– hacked on the perl servicebroker
Alex:
– learned about Google Gears
– wrote some python to produce data for gears
– worked on SICP problems
– writing some media-computation python (smearing tacocat)
Lindsey:
– wrote a birthday present for her friend
– – it takes his username and computes his age (in a Scheme-y sort of way)
– coordinated trips
– stuck in meetings at work
– met a brilliant mathematician/computer-scientist and stay-at-home mom
– – thus believes there are more elite women in the world than people realize (anna marie says: amen!)
– – especially in places where women are encouraged to be humble,etc
– – who don’t give talks at cons because they don’t realize how brilliant they are
Mark:
– sped up Prototype’s “String.prototype.gsub” (in everything except Safari)
– started a blog ( shiftpop )
Anna Marie:
– finals week, stressed
– can’t put alt-text on background-images
– completed site-map for portfolio site
– working on design for an athletic-wear company: “helios”
Rob:
– installed OS X on his windows computer
– playing with MAX/MSP
– learning python
– gaining experience points, trolls, firespells
– “not a metaphor”

Erik:
– read about git submodules
– wants to have customized project directories that share common code
– planning ERP spinoff company – planning for flexibility (so customers can upgrade/add capabilities)
– went to lunar eclipe party
Mark:
– working on HaXe bundle for TextMate
– writing HaXe data layer for timeplot widget
– went to lunar eclipse party (on the lawn that was a parkinglot by van leer)
Martin:
– installed gtkD (gtk bindings for the D language)
– playing around with it (there’s no documentation)
– reading about "lazy" function arguments in D
Alex:
– working on work
– started reading sicp and mythical-man-month
– ran 16.6 miles down the san diego coastline
Lindsey:
– ran 16.6 miles down the san diego coastline
– updated shoebox full of tapes (at rockstargirl.org)
– attempted to teach five people how to do her job
Tejus:
– working on work
– made buttons appear in correct locations in IE
– skybloxing
– had something repaired, no longer has water falling on basement computer

Annamarie (new member):
– goes to SCAD,
– in a graphic design class,
– making a website about typography,
– using dreamweaver
Martin:
– google maps + craigslist mashup,
– wrangling with unicode, regexes, python database api
Mark:
– writing code in haxe,
– a micro-orm (accidentally),
– intends to make a mini-graphviz for social timeline layout
Erik:
– implemented state machine for the bill of materials
– reading about primaries on the dailykos
Alex:
– http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=53
– squished all remaining bugs in docreader, did a backflip,
– writing a blog post, “which i’ve been meaning to do for a while”
– got a copy of sicp, may read in synchrony with Lindsey:
– “it would be sickly sweet, but we may do it anyways”
Lindsey:
– finished (hofstadter’s) strange loop,
– started sicp (structure and interpretation of computer programs)
– is eating a doughnut

(lest anyone think that we hold our Portland delegation in lower regard than local members, the note are ordered by arrival time, with top-posting of new members)

Martin:
– worked on google maps / craigslist mashup,
– learned django (routing and views),
– read about wsgi, likes that
Erik:
– got a counter-offer from his company,
– is staying in Atlanta!!!!
– tweaked design of aloe
Alex:
– meaning to make some blogposts:
– about distributed source control
– and about setting up ubuntu to do (highly impractical) academic computing,
– excited about crowdsourcing,
– will make a a game that collects crowdsourced-esque data,
– saw presentation by “esp” game creator (Louis von Ahn)
Lindsey:
– learned how to map files over ssh
– did situps
– “stopped putting important stuff in methods that people are going to override anayways”
Zack:
– writing java in xcode, ditching it for eclipse,
– robot ships tuesday,
– working on the autonomous mode,
– drive code is written, need to test
Tejus:
– solved the integration issue with appcelerator and yahoo maps,
– required weird asynchronous hacks,
– adding scripts tags, callbacks
Sonali:
– playing with using amazon web services,
– going to use web services in her next project
Mark:
– figuring out how to make a TextMate bundle,
– (his coworkers are eclipse adverse)
Gabi:
– reading “The Secret Life of Bees”

Martin:
– zmachine, maybe?
Erik:
– aloe, maybe?
Alex:
– “vim is 354k lines of code”
– got excited about git,
– figured out how to work perforce and the GOOG build process,
– working on some blog posts,
– expecting a docreader release on valentine’s day
Lindsey:
– reconfiguring the network,
– set up nfs,
– uses textmate over nfs to a linux box,
– learning not to trust QA people
Mark:
– wrote javascript in continuation passing style
Drew:
– refactored code from yue into miru
Tejus:
– researched g maps,
– updated photos on vijedi
Sonali:
– did annual evaluation for sita,
– found gap in analysis,
– fixed requirements that were not met
– researching new project is web 1.5!!
– rpc, jmx, wsdl

talked with Stefan about his font on the wall
 – http://www.youworkforthem.com/product.php?sku=T0133
 – http://flickr.com/photos/byrdhouse/2198183437/

nanobot silliness:
 – "have you been up to nanobottery?" -mr
 – subatomic nanobots: "they’re mostly made out of math" -ar
 – "i assume they take micropayments" -ar

discussion of gender, dialects between speakers, prisons
 – "nature deplores a vacuum … of dichotomies" -ar
 – apparently there are different dialects for conversations between genders (4 total)

predictions about P = NP
 – "by 2010 we’ll have made P = NP" -mr
 – "with Moore’s law, P will equal, I mean, for all practical purposes, will equal NP" -ar

Alex and Lindsey in Portland
 – went to Powell’s
 – went running 10 miles, and 6 miles, and went to the gym
 – biked all over Portland

– – – – Local Attendees: Martin, Mark, Erik, Alex
– – – – Remote Attendees: Graham, Lindsey, Zach G

Martin is reading about suffix trees.
Mark is thinking about Haskell, writing Javascript to translate between languages.
Erik had a job interview in San Francisco, was offered a job, is considering this weighty decision.
Alex is reading about linear algebra.
Lindsey rebuilt desktop machine with Alex’s help; installed Ubuntu, went to Code n’ Splode.
Zach G made a very fast BigNum implementation in Java.

and Graham reports, from Barcelona:

today saw a demo from Yu Nishibori of the Tenori-On. (Yamaha gave the MTG
one from meetings last week), and Yu was in town he played for us. My
impression is that it is a beat-based grid sequencer, but in that
context fairly flexible and fun.

Tonight, at the França library working on Mused. Still no idea yet,
but moving swiftly on refactors that should reduce the amount of code
maintanence for adding features, widgets, etc.

Played ping-pong, worked on forehand.

reading Numerical Optimization by Nocedal… would recommend it so far
for readability.

    Bob:
        phenomenology and Forteanism,
        dilemma of the pregnant co-worker’s rights
    Tejus:
        building a blog in appcelerator,
        working on the apcl framework itself,
        trying to figure out wtf an ria is
    Sonali:
        making presentation on testing and documentation process at working,
        adding colors and charts to impress suits
    Martin:
        python zmachine interpreter,
        fighting google code’s svn,
        decoded "the only important part" of the zmachine header
    Lauren:
        reading Ursula K LeGuin
    Erik:
        preparing for startup-weekend-atlanta,
        looking at ideas
    Alex:
        running every single day of November,
        has collaborator in Portland, a software developer
        working on scrabblebot,
        given a move, what are the new words that come into existence?
    Mark:
        wrote a method_missing to examine the bindings of a Proc,
        porting appcelerator to python/pylons
    Stuart:
       making industrial sounds and music in Reason