Atlhack » Computer Music http://atlhack.org The weekly notes of a geeky Atlanta-area meetup Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:58:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hackfest 1100111 http://atlhack.org/2008/01/16/hackfest-1100111/ http://atlhack.org/2008/01/16/hackfest-1100111/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Mark Luffel     Martin:
        contract with blueheat,
        their development process is scary,
        wrote python code to solve a scheduling problem
    Alex:
        showing off gwt google code wiki, now non-secret,
        is going to Portland this weekend
    Graham:
        refactored Mused such that it should be easier to add new features
        (not software features, but audo features),
        wants to submit a paper to ICMC, needs a good idea
    Erik:
        forecaster.ws, looking at php weather,
        has converted to distributed version control!! (git)
    Mark:
        used craigslist to find housemates, all were human,
        writing haskell to play slitherlink
    Sonali:
        maintaining choices quilts code,
        JDBC, System.out.println
    Tejus:
        doing the home-owner’s association thing,
        trying to avoid becoming corrupt
    Kelly:
        ga state is ok,
        first day was rough, trouble getting back home,
        no marta money, phone dead, had erik’s keys

]]> http://atlhack.org/2008/01/16/hackfest-1100111/feed/ 1 Hackfest 1100000 http://atlhack.org/2007/11/13/hackfest-1100000/ http://atlhack.org/2007/11/13/hackfest-1100000/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Mark Luffel     Says: CCP Games has a new office in Atlanta
    (they make a python-based mmorpg)
    finished mural for his daughter's room,
    switched to mercurial for source control
Mark:
    wrote a python macro!
    returns a hashtable of all variable bindings at the return point of a func
    ported accelerator to python, learned setuptools,
    wrote a wrapper to make pyglets looks like nodebox, porting sketches
    leading Martin through Appcelerator]]> Drew:
    Says: CCP Games has a new office in Atlanta
    (they make a python-based mmorpg)
    finished mural for his daughter’s room,
    switched to mercurial for source control
Mark:
    wrote a python macro!
    returns a hashtable of all variable bindings at the return point of a func
    ported accelerator to python, learned setuptools,
    wrote a wrapper to make pyglets looks like nodebox, porting sketches
    leading Martin through Appcelerator
Martin:
    working with Gil Weinburg on cellphone software,
    learning Appcelerator
    installing pylons, pydev
Lauryn:
    reading "The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy"
Alex:
    pushing after thanksgiving
    thumbing through the gang of four book
    trying out the "Miro" player (that Cory Doctrow is all excited about)
Rob:
    reading about GlovePie,
    so that he can create MIDI Mayhem at Nophest
Yuna:
    reading about professional baking,
    made doughnuts last week,
    they could be better
Stuart:
    "my hair is wet"
    is going to talk about music

Drew: I wish there was something like PyCon, but language agnostic.
Mark: ReadabilityCon08!
Drew: IndentationCon! All languages with semantic whitespace: Python, Haskell…
Mark: Makefiles!
Drew: That’d be TabsAreImportantCon

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/11/13/hackfest-1100000/feed/ 0 bcnhack 3 http://atlhack.org/2007/11/06/bcnhack-3/ http://atlhack.org/2007/11/06/bcnhack-3/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 graham
Since Last Week:
-started on my MTG pages: me, chuck
-started checking student labs for Informatica de l'Audio
-made a new chuck doodle
-read lots of papers

This Week's Plan:
-want to hack in OSC-based RPC to chuck

Hope everybody is doing well, you are missed.]]> 6 Nov 2007 – much time

Since Last Week:
-started on my MTG pages: me, chuck
-started checking student labs for Informatica de l’Audio
-made a new chuck doodle
-read lots of papers

This Week’s Plan:
-want to hack in OSC-based RPC to chuck

Hope everybody is doing well, you are missed.

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/11/06/bcnhack-3/feed/ 0 Hackfest 1011011 http://atlhack.org/2007/10/10/hackfest-1011011/ http://atlhack.org/2007/10/10/hackfest-1011011/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Mark Luffel     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:]]> 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

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/10/10/hackfest-1011011/feed/ 1 bcnhack 1 http://atlhack.org/2007/10/07/bcnhack-1/ http://atlhack.org/2007/10/07/bcnhack-1/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 graham
Since Last Week:
-worked on Chuck sharing website, got demo running

This Week:
-building a running prototype, got db connection, need to add file upload]]> 2 Oct 2007 – more bcn solo-hacking

Since Last Week:
-worked on Chuck sharing website, got demo running

This Week:
-building a running prototype, got db connection, need to add file upload

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/10/07/bcnhack-1/feed/ 0 Hackfest 1011010 Mortem http://atlhack.org/2007/10/03/hackfest-1011010-mortem/ http://atlhack.org/2007/10/03/hackfest-1011010-mortem/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Mark Luffel Since Last Time:
    Erik:
        releasing an app that converts a rhapsody-listening-feed to last.fm,
        rhobbler.com
    Mark:
        books: "Japanese for Busy People 2",
        "Domain-Driven Design", "Beautiful Code"
        learned some with scala (jvm-based functional language)
    Alex:]]> Since Last Time:
    Erik:
        releasing an app that converts a rhapsody-listening-feed to last.fm,
        rhobbler.com
    Mark:
        books: "Japanese for Busy People 2",
        "Domain-Driven Design", "Beautiful Code"
        learned some with scala (jvm-based functional language)
    Alex:
        triangular wave weekend,
        watching machine learning tutorial online,
        plsa = probabilistic latent semantic analysis,
    John:
        is building an outliner,
        may use google gears,
        will return with gwt questions for alex
    Rob:
        played a show at parkgrounds
    Stuart:
        doing research,
        working on the new album,
        due by the end of the month

Tonight:
    Erik:
        the server is good now
    Mark:
        reading papers about haskell,
        writing a soft constraint solver in nodebox
    Alex:
        has a stack of papers from acm portal,
        wants to learn statistics (and thus R),
        wants to learn linear algebra (and thus Matlab)
    John:
        discussing ajax,gwt,xaml,silverlight,flash
        no internet, so he goes home
    Rob:
        preparing for laptop battle,
        going to learn reason tonight,
        it’s what stuart uses, and rob likes the cheese
    Will:
        explaining how CAD programs do geometric constraints,
        degrees of freedom
    Stuart:
        hanging out

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/10/03/hackfest-1011010-mortem/feed/ 0 Hackfest 1010111 Mortem http://atlhack.org/2007/09/11/hackfest-1010111-mortem/ http://atlhack.org/2007/09/11/hackfest-1010111-mortem/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 graham
Since Last Week-
Alex- started sketching a scrabble bot in python.
 might reduce the problem to finding bags of words.
 other ideas: online community for kids to teach kids programming, like Moose Crossing.
 puzzle: walk a binary tree in order without using recursion
Sonali- db stuff at work.
Tejus- what have I been up to? writing data warehousing stuff. redesigning software.
Martin- working on osiris.
Stuart- research
Graham- wrote down instructions for adding new audio features to Mused. too complicated.]]> 11 Sept 2007 – one last hack

Since Last Week-
Alex- started sketching a scrabble bot in python.
 might reduce the problem to finding bags of words.
 other ideas: online community for kids to teach kids programming, like Moose Crossing.
 puzzle: walk a binary tree in order without using recursion
Sonali- db stuff at work.
Tejus- what have I been up to? writing data warehousing stuff. redesigning software.
Martin- working on osiris.
Stuart- research
Graham- wrote down instructions for adding new audio features to Mused. too complicated.
Mark- doing javascript and css for work. watched alex mclean’s new vocable synthesis
Devin- there are updates for fuzzwich

This Week’s Plans-
Alex- make a representation for bag of letters, figure out how to do matches.
Sonali- playing with her phone.
Tejus- playing with his phone, saying goodbye to me.
Martin- working on osiris, adding more image filters to it.
Stuart- music. mourning my departure
Graham- will try to simplify process of adding features to Mused
Mark- go running. all burnt out on computers

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/09/11/hackfest-1010111-mortem/feed/ 0 Hackfest 1010110 Mortem http://atlhack.org/2007/09/04/hackfest-1010110-mortem/ http://atlhack.org/2007/09/04/hackfest-1010110-mortem/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 graham
Since Last Week -
Mark- attended three bday parties, not a clown
 looked at pylons and storm, object relational mappers for python
 going to do the digital music project with tyrus
 making a pyweek game in piglets (scene2d)
Stuart- working on music, recorded Rock and Roll Hellhole
Graham- finished mixing The Smooth Galaxy
Tejus and Sonali- setting up the house, learning java and oracle stuff
Vinny- messing with xulrunner, for work and outliner
 thinks it is better than swing
]]> 4 September 2007 – how do you spell funk?

Since Last Week –
Mark- attended three bday parties, not a clown
 looked at pylons and storm, object relational mappers for python
 going to do the digital music project with tyrus
 making a pyweek game in piglets (scene2d)
Stuart- working on music, recorded Rock and Roll Hellhole
Graham- finished mixing The Smooth Galaxy
Tejus and Sonali- setting up the house, learning java and oracle stuff
Vinny- messing with xulrunner, for work and outliner
 thinks it is better than swing

This Week-
Stuart- watching youtube videos and going to cleanroom
Mark- adding jumping to ShizWiz
Graham- want to add feature to Mused
Tejus and Sonali- drink tea and say bye to Graham
Rob- working on the Laptop of War

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/09/04/hackfest-1010110-mortem/feed/ 0 Hackfest 1010101 Mortem http://atlhack.org/2007/08/28/hackfest-1010101-mortem/ http://atlhack.org/2007/08/28/hackfest-1010101-mortem/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 graham
flashbacks from mark and drew's technical comm class

new person - Tyrus of "giant steps" fame
he is a designer, works for hakano / appcelerator
freelance projects, does a lot of painting, paints portraits
currently working on a digital download system for independent musicians

Ryan (Alex's friend from Tallahasee) is here,
 moving to Toronto tomorrow morning, MS->PhD in medieval studies UToronto

Humza is also here, talking on the phone

Since Last Meeting-
Sonali- getting stuff ready to move into a house. going to London soon.]]> 28 August 2007 – table of four + three

flashbacks from mark and drew’s technical comm class

new person – Tyrus of "giant steps" fame
he is a designer, works for hakano / appcelerator
freelance projects, does a lot of painting, paints portraits
currently working on a digital download system for independent musicians

Ryan (Alex’s friend from Tallahasee) is here,
 moving to Toronto tomorrow morning, MS->PhD in medieval studies UToronto

Humza is also here, talking on the phone

Since Last Meeting-
Sonali- getting stuff ready to move into a house. going to London soon.
Tejus- data warehousing, creating a database with different time-slices.
Stuart- went to Las Vegas to visit father, worked on concept album for the "kids"
 worked on a new program, make robots that download public financial data to do stock market research. going to build it in Java, going to use sight, orig., for bioinformatics
 yahoo.finance.com + SP500, then extract useful information.
 expects to have something in a month. going to call it stock monkey
Graham- met with Alex Rae, who will present my paper in Copenhagen
Drew- wants to build a templated chuck music on demand
 trying to implement a wire level language agnostic protocol for secure rpc
fixning problems in jsp scripts
Mark- hiked the appalachian trail, 140 miles. eight bears, blackberries and blueberries
 focus on water, alternation water filter, iodine, and boiled

Devin- is back from Boston and the YCombinator experience
 apparently met Stephen Wolfram, going ahead with his company
 seems to be excellent for generating absurd animations
 http://www.fuzzwich.com/

Scott Driscoll- made his first sale on curiousinventor-
 http://www.curiousinventor.com/
Alex- played with fluxus, may be hard to setup
 started messing with impromptu, stopped sending media events
 might work on one laptop per child, excited about it

This Week’s Plans-
Sonali- catching up on email from Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Tejus- trying to keep smart phone sync’ed up with computer
 trying to use "the missing sync", an OSX utility
Stuart- working on "ready for the show"
 about how life sucks and we all are going to die, but you should enjoy the show
Graham- document known bugs in Mused, attempt to fix them
Mark- talk with people about music project, go running

addendum: we bought the server for atlhack-colo

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/08/28/hackfest-1010101-mortem/feed/ 0 Hackfest 1010100 Postmortem http://atlhack.org/2007/08/22/hackfest-1010100-postmortem/ http://atlhack.org/2007/08/22/hackfest-1010100-postmortem/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 graham
new member Hamza! from Google ops
also we discussed the differences between art, science, engineering

Since Last Week-
Mark- is off hiking the Appalachian trail with his brother
Alex- talking with little zach about data structures
 -catalogued differences between java 1.4 and 1.5 by diffing javadocs
Kelly- started classes at UGA, human sexuality, speculative fiction class
Erik- working on projects that collects server statistics, pipaya
 -talking with Gregg about a manufacturing resource planning for his lab]]> 21 August 2007 – billings talks about tries, datastructure for autocomplete

new member Hamza! from Google ops
also we discussed the differences between art, science, engineering

Since Last Week-
Mark- is off hiking the Appalachian trail with his brother
Alex- talking with little zach about data structures
 -catalogued differences between java 1.4 and 1.5 by diffing javadocs
Kelly- started classes at UGA, human sexuality, speculative fiction class
Erik- working on projects that collects server statistics, pipaya
 -talking with Gregg about a manufacturing resource planning for his lab
Gregg- is now a grad student. might have a boyfriend.
 -fillings orders for sensors in the lab, furnace maintenence, training new guy
Billings- made progress on his amp. designed a new bias provider,
 -tested in Spice, ordered transformer
Rob- work stuff, new songwriting
Stuart- did some new project! Alex will tell me about it
Graham- no progress on getting visa faster. started packing up. investigated rooms.
Hamza- working on model to judge effectiveness of machine health model

This Week-
Alex- trying to get fluxus set up again
Kelly- is reading Solaris, reading On the Road by Cormac McCarthy
Erik- working on pipaya
Gregg- putting out feelers for database system to track parts in the lab
Billings- reading stories from PG Wodehouse
Rob- writing tanooki zoo songs
Stuart- doing some exciting project
Graham- must get Mused ready for presentation at ICMC by XRae

]]> http://atlhack.org/2007/08/22/hackfest-1010100-postmortem/feed/ 0