Atlhack http://atlhack.org Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:32:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Focused Hack http://atlhack.org/2010/03/02/focused-hack/ http://atlhack.org/2010/03/02/focused-hack/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:31:09 +0000 Mark Luffel http://atlhack.org/?p=425 It has snowed on three separate occasions in Atlanta this winter, and today was one of those days.

Rob is making a Game Boy (Advance) game, Asteroid Doom. He’s writing C code, using GBA mode 3.

Mark is learning Scala because he (amusingly) signed up to talk at the Atlanta Scala Meetup without knowing the language. He’s using it to make visual stuff in Processing.

We are both quite focused, as Rob’s game is for class and due by midnight, and Mark needs to learn Scala in the next 45 hours or risk losing face.

This weekend we attended the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, listened to weird new instruments, watched talks by Gil, Jason, and Parag, chatted with Andrew Beck, Alex Rae, Nishant Mehta, and Karthik Raveendran. The highlights for me were the live-soldering performance and the suitcase full of solenoids. The magnetic resonator piano performance was also excellent, and we agreed, is the most likely to see wide-spread adoption.

]]> http://atlhack.org/2010/03/02/focused-hack/feed/ 1 More hacking in Bloomington http://atlhack.org/2010/02/03/more-hacking-in-bloomington/ http://atlhack.org/2010/02/03/more-hacking-in-bloomington/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:57:40 +0000 alexr http://atlhack.org/?p=422 - Alex has restarted his efforts to programmatically generate bad poetry.
– fixed the bit-rot in his old Lisp/inference-engine version
– started porting code for rhymes into Python
– NLTK is going to make this a whole lot easier.
– (((UP EVERYBODY) (ACROSS ALL DELIRIUM) (COME SAVE MAN WHILE OUT)))
– This wants to be running on App Engine, so people can vote snippets of text as POETIC OR NOT.

- Lindsey went to rehearsal for the choral piece she’s going to perform, answered a bunch of questions from her students, and is reading some papers about Foundational Proof-Carrying Code. And is still waiting to hear back from Jane Street.

Some of the grad students around Bloomington have started a weekly “study party” on Sunday afternoons at the local coffee shop — we need to hijack this and get them to work on cool side projects.

Also, our friend Will Byrd is getting a local hardware-hacking group together… he’s got Arduinos (etc) and is building animatronic kitties.

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We had a little server down-time when upgrading to Karmic Koala. But we’re back. Last week Mark and Tejus talked about genetic algorithms, because Tejus’s new company does some of that and Mark has been pondering a project that involves them.

And this week:

Rob
– Learning how to write an Atari program
– Going to make a variant of pong based on jai-alai with a swinging motion of the joystick
– Wrote a program in the Chef language for making orange-flavored waffles, which prints out the monetary fine for pirating a song, hopefully he’ll post this somewhere, it’s awesome!

Mark
– Intended to write some geometric code, can’t concentrate
– Read about Atlanta Startup Weekend 3 instead

]]> http://atlhack.org/2009/11/17/orange-waffles/feed/ 1 Hackfest http://atlhack.org/2009/10/14/hackfest/ http://atlhack.org/2009/10/14/hackfest/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:15:36 +0000 Mark Luffel http://atlhack.org/?p=418 Richard is working on two songs for the Mediashare Benefit tomorrow at Smith’s Olde Bar

Emily is working on a sermon, by way of Facebook ;)

Rob shows us his Processing project that includes video of Glenn Beck + Katie Couric, plus flickr images of “obama + racist”. Is going to Under the Couch to watch Stuart perform

Eldon is turning his phone into a SIP gateway via Bluetooth, having issues with RFCOMM socket

Alsie is reading “The Green Collar Economy” and looking at “Wild Things” forts on booooooom.com

Mark is wrangling Java security for his Processing server (named “Projecting”)

]]> http://atlhack.org/2009/10/14/hackfest/feed/ 0 First Day of Autumn 2009 http://atlhack.org/2009/09/30/first-day-of-autumn-2009/ http://atlhack.org/2009/09/30/first-day-of-autumn-2009/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:23:39 +0000 Mark Luffel http://atlhack.org/?p=416 Rob:
Intended to work on Processing, instead wrote Japanese, including mysterious essay ending, talked with Mark about the technology of cinema. Wearing a threadless hoodie.
Mark:
Browsed papers from “Artifical Life” journal, hacked on his Processing server project, talked with Dustin about traditional animation tweening notation. Wearing a holey sweater.

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Alex is learning numpy and using it to model some Markov processes. It’s for an NLP class, but the use of numpy is totally gratuitous. He keeps meaning to autogenerate some bad poetry.

Happy hacking, ATL and Bay Area hackers!

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Jason Ho is back in town from Taipei, will be moving to Silicon Valley in a few months.
Puyan Lotfi is back from Microsoft/Seattle, doing a Master’s Degree in CS at GT.
The Reverend Emily Case is hanging out and writing a sermon.
Sonali had eye surgery and Tejus will soon. Their company is having trouble.

Puyan also brought along fellow Master’s students, who are hacking on a Knowledge-Base AI detective problem.
And the usual suspects, Mark and Rob are hanging out and maybe writing some interactive fiction.

]]> http://atlhack.org/2009/09/15/atlhangout-09/feed/ 3 Bloominghack: 09/08/2009 http://atlhack.org/2009/09/08/bloominghack-09082009/ http://atlhack.org/2009/09/08/bloominghack-09082009/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:43:27 +0000 Lindsey Kuper http://atlhack.org/2009/09/08/bloominghack-09082009/ Tonight: a bunch of kids from the CS department out at Soma Coffee
near Downtown Bloomington.

Alex:
- polishing up his latex skills
- doing some R
- reading Statistics book
- (ok, this is all for class; should be doing a side project…)

Lindsey:
- reading about intelligent agents in Russell and Norvig
- answering student questions for B521 (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/b521)

Andy (another IU CS Ph.D student):
- Working on a related works section for a paper on a Ruby-based
compiler toolkit (RubyWrite) and reading about those related systems.

Also present: Ben, Mark, Christine, Rebecca, and Wren.

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– hacking interactive fiction with Inform
– going to make a game where you fall asleep to go back in time

Mark
– writing some Processing code for school
– went to the Freeside meeting and got my keycard

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Rob
– doing CSS with Kelly
– going to karaoke
Kelly
– searching for jobs
– updating her online resume
– using Firebug!
Erik
– didn’t install Ruby 1.9.1
– playing WoW
Sonali
– fixing production issues for work
– survived layoffs
Tejus
– working on CSS refactoring
– survived layoffs
Emily
– learning HAML
– finding her way around a Sinatra session
Molly
– reading her RSS on Emily’s computer
– finished knitting her tank top
Alex
– working on passive-voice-detector with NLTK
– has it mostly working
Mark
– trying out new Mac software
– working on a processing sketch for Corkbird

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