Brain Candy
Hackfest 1001011 Mortem
19 June 2007 - Haskellnacht
new people:
Matt - Alex's friend enrolling in MS mechanical engineering.
Asok - dude from the information retrieval company.
Since Last Week-
Mark- performed at electro-music 2007! learned chuck, wrote chuck bluegrass
-writing code to fold fabric in processing
-ran with Graham to Decatur
Greg- measured the volume of powder with helium gas
Alex- built first interactive demo of spelling correction on java + twidor
-exported classifier from WEKA, hooked it all up.
Hackfest 1001010 Postmortem
29 May 2007 - everybody was sad in middle school
Mark is listening to Amadou et Miriam - the blind couple from Mali
mesons - groups of two quarks, baryons - groups of three
flavors - up, down, top, bottom, strange, charm
Since Last Time-
Erik- company didn't go public. will implement memcache. amazon ec2 - virtual hosting API.
Alex- getting ready for summer camp.
-learned Scratch- it's obvious, least astonishment, can make complex animations.
-doesn't give you structured procedures as in logo.
special cases of bipartite matching
programming new variants on bipartite matching at work. fun stuff. film at 11.
The Internet Is Epic
I've been trying to figure out what this video actually says. All that I've come up with is that it gives me a vague sense of hope about the possibilities of the Internet, but it is not a very meaty intellectual chunk. I feel that this could have been a short film about the wonders of flint, and that as long as it is set to a techno sound track with clever editing it will give the viewer a vague impression of a message. The message being "Humans Rule."
I mean to belittle neither flint nor the Internet, but I feel that more should and could be said about the Internet. Sure the Internet is a fast communications network, and we've never had anything like it before. People are communicating on a mass scale never before seen. That is the "What." I don't feel that any assertions were actually made about how the speed, and massive size of this communication is effecting culture.
Hackfest 101110.1 Postmortem - Blast from the past.
Its late and Graham owes me a punch in the stomach, but I hope this is a case of better late than never! From 8-17-2006
This Past Week:
Graham:
- Try to use more sample in chuck environment in preparation for a Laptop Battle.
- Started some work towards a collaborative chuck site.
Alex:
- Borrowed a twiddler and had some fun. --- Hopefully the arm is much better now?
Luke:
Hackfest 110101 Mortem
14 December 2006 - dj night again!
new member profile:
Jason Ho -
qaboom.com - Question and answer community for colleges
- ie "how to change folder colors in unix terminal, top five roadtrip movies, risks of eating preservatives, lucky buddha on 10th street hit or miss"
Ti calculator community- Alien Invation - Legend of Zelda clone
went to Small Business Administration today for startup advice
They suggest you start with a partnership agreement.
He added admin area to his site this week.
Tonight he's doing formatting for the tag browsing
