Aerobics + English lessons + Pick-up lines == win?

They're sending a replacement. It should get here in 8-10 business days ( Read more... )

So earlier this month I bought a laptop from Dell*. It's a nice little thing, and I got it at a good sale. 12.1" screen, NVIDIA graphics, 2.0 ghz core 2 duo, 2 gb ram, 120 gb hdd, 9 cell battery, built in bluetooth and webcam/mic. Small, not too heavy, and long battery life, while still retaining the power to play games when I feel like it. ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I'm a frequent visitor to weather sites.. I like to know what's coming up, especially if it's going to thunderstorm (so I can plan to be at home and snuggled in a blanket with my hot tea while I stare out the window). The past few weeks, the national weather service has been attempting to educate the American public on weather ( Read more... )

The semester is all over, grades are distributed, and everything's good so far :) I ended up getting an A- in 6.896 (Sublinear Time Algorithms), which I'm very happy about. I definitely had trouble with the proofs in that class; even if I understand exactly why something is true, I have a hard time formalizing it on paper (although I know I'm not ( Read more... )

Dear Ph.D. Comics,

Stop writing comics about my life. It's getting creepy.

Thanks.

In other news, I finished my final project for Sub-linear Time Algorithms (6.896). It actually turned out pretty well... there's an informal writeup online if anyone's curious. It has to do with clustering data points, and proving that by clustering a randomly ( Read more... )

Hmm, it is hot outside today, and it's supposed to be hotter tomorrow. I'm still freezing in lab.

My to-do list for research while Regina is gone:

• Learn about Dirichlet processes
• Read papers by a certain person who's done work on building trees from clusters
• Figure out how to tell what an article stub is missing

The first part is pretty self-explanatory (if difficult). The second, I just realized I have no idea how to spell the guy's name. When ( Read more... )

Note to self: NP complete problems do not make good class projects. Also, deciding to test the NP complete algorithm on two different sample sizes does not make it better ( Read more... )

I have a policy of staying away from energy drinks. Sure, I have a Mountain Dew now and then, and I do drink a fair bit of soda, but things that are specifically labeled energy drinks are somewhat scary to me. I just am not quite sure what they put in there (besides lots of caffeine).

So today, I saw a commercial for an energy drink ( ( Read more... )