New Member:
Nate:
working on startup: Wamily
make-your-own social-network with widgets
targeted at young people, customizable
Emory graduate, wants to move to the valley
runs Ubuntu, uses RadRails
Since last Time:
Erik:
working on pipaya
Kelly:
read a lot of books:
"lilith’s brood" – about alien sex, a trilogy
"you shall know our velocity"
"children of men", "solaris",
wrote one of the most powerful introductions to a paper that she’s ever written
Drew:
painting a mural of a mountain lion, a rabbit, and a pig,
in the baby’s eventual room,
working on gnarly legacy projects,
things that were once considered a good idea
Mark:
moved into a house in decatur,
processing sketch of fuzzy ellipse ray-tracing,
read about juno-2 constraint system
Alex:
watched another machine learning lecture,
reading about linear algebra,
ada-boost, support vector machines, bagging
Zach:
BEST robot,
designing spellchecking algorithms
Joe:
week of Tex-Mex, tonight Taco Bell
Rob:
configuring his keytar,
put knobs for the keytar
Gregg:
making and repairing lamps in his house,
found on the side of the road, rusted out,
spent three hours searching for a lamp shade
Stuart:
finished design,
will be sent to the photolithography place,
will start production in a few weeks
Tejus:
etl (extract-transform-load), pictures
Tonight:
Erik:
working/talking with Nate
Kelly:
reading "you shall know our velocity"
Drew:
working on his legacy projects,
feeling guilty about not working on oilrig
Nate:
working/talking with Erik
Mark:
preparing bar camp presentation,
feeling guilty about not working on oilrig,
taking lots of notes
Alex:
teaching about machine learning,
"the kernel trick"
Zach:
learning about machine learning
Joe:
cranking voter files,
reading about postgress internals,
partial indicies
Rob:
likes being able to move around while music-making
Gregg:
sketching
Jim:
reading film textbook
Stuart:
"you can exert some physicality" – to rob about keytar,
explaining photolith materials to mark,
work on a song, drinking tea