Atlhack

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

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