Atlhack

brandon:
– friend of puyan’s
– his day job is writing C code for French set-top boxes
bill:
– writing about doublethink and organizational behavior
– has recently revisited his love of flight simulators
puyan:
– showing his ctags-enabled text editor
mark:
– reading papers, organizing processing sketches
alex rae:
– hacking obscure binary formats for a summer project

Alex
– generating efficient java code from a WEKA classifier
Mark
– added readline support to the v8 javascript shell
– scouting the processing community on twitter

Post-track-meet hack!

Alex, Mark, and Lindsey ran in the ATC All-Comers Track Meet; Alex posted our race results.

We then proceeded to Octane for hacking, but were all kind of tired. Mark and Alex did work stuff while Lindsey procrastinated.The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

Alex (Rae)
– externals for Pure Data, in C
– minimal GUI in wxPython
– perhaps working on a music iPhone app this summer
– planning to use PD/C for prototyping

Sonali
– dealing with thickbox + jquery issues
– for work 🙁

Tejus
– multipart form uploads in jquery + rails
– for secret side project

Mark
– working on corkbird
– doing memcache
– learning how to migrate a schema
– getting better at django

Alex (Rudnick)
– looked at different linux laptops
– getting scala sudoku solver ready to open-source
– considered planning a fun programming activity for middle-schoolers

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!”

alex (rae)
– has finished his thesis!
– explored extensions to standard beat tracking algorithms

mark
– adding features to corkbird
– uploaded a new version and discovered some bugs

rob
– made half a song in ableton
– learned about FM synthesis

alex (rudnick)
– working on typo detection
– wrote about the first annual Rudnick triathalon

rob
– sorting though a list of mp3
– played with processing
– drew lines and changed background when clicking the mouse
mark
– trying to work on corkbird
– but stuck on datastore techniques
alex
– watching the Google Campfire One feed
– months of his work being demoed live

MATT TODD (new member)
– Knows Tejus from Startup Riot
– Works at Highgroove Studios (Rails folks)
– Working on Scout tonight

SONALI
– Removing features from Choices Quilts
– At work, gets to add whatever features she deems necessary

TEJUS
– Fixing timezone issue in Skyblox
– Goes to a lot of meetings these days
– Shared Tyrus gossip
– Won the frontend technology battle at work

MARK
– Working on corkbird website: tans, browns, lemon yellow
– Writing processing code to warp shapes by sketching

ROB
– Playing with Ableton Live
– Looking at becoming a Computation Media major
– Following professional wrestlers on twitter

ALEX
– Doing typo-detection, big refactoring
– Taking into account variable context
– Now can specify amount of future and past content to analyze

NIRMAL –
– working on javascript pdf reader
– has selection working (both block and in-sequence)
– is going to add behavior to allow exporting a selected bitmap from a pdf
MANSI –
– is hanging out
– email and facebooking after vacation
ALEX –
– doing mobile typo detection
– taking into account more timing information (than before)
– read about a system that does morphology for hebrew
MARK –
– made progress on his corkbird TODO list
– yesterday, made a simple processing sketch for slicing video
LINDSEY –
– taught scheme class (for a bit) today
– talked about a (lexically-scope) interpreter her friend Paul made
– back from spring break in portland