Hackfest 1110000
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 [http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/]
- - who showed off DrFu, which integrates DrScheme with Script-Fu for GIMP [http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Glimmer/DrFu/]
- 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 about http://www.saturdayhouse.org/ (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