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i'm thinking that i should turn this blog thing back on. i tried to flip the switch a while ago, but never did. lately, i've been having thoughts that i wanted to put online but twitter was too short and the super secret blog out there was well....too secret ( Read more... ) -
boston beginnings
made it into boston. here for the summer, staying with sam for the first few days. today we're beginning our brunch adventures and then going to ikea to get some crap that i will invariably need for my dorm room. it's kind of dangerous to do that before i've seen the dorm room but that's okay ( Read more... ) -
tasty delicious
so i think i have some stuff to write about, finally ( Read more... ) -
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so knowledge says that ER is coming to a close. tragedy. i will weep a thousand tears, esp because: carter is coming back. lets go africa. and kovach is leaving. double sad. weeping sad. -
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so i think i may go to cambridge and scope it out. there isn't anything going on here worth sticking around for between 11 and 3, so that may be enough time to go check it out. i'll consider this a dry run for when i'm here for the summer.
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hello boston
So i'm up in boston this week for the SIAM meeting on Optimization. I'm presenting some of my research that i've been doing over the last few semesters....should be fun! I'm here for the week, then back to raleigh for a few weeks, and then back up to here for the summer working at MIT Lincoln Labs in Lexington, staying in Cambridge. Turns out my ( Read more... ) -
final push.
good evening world ( Read more... ) -
be advised
Let it be known...
Today is the official day of remembrance and recognition of the Armenian genocide. Here are some nice tidbits:
Armenia vows to increase recognition of the Genocide Keeping Turkey out of the EU would be nice.
Anti-Turkey protests on the ground in Yerevan. I would be on their side, obviously. Someone give me a torch ( Read more... ) -
awards?
right so, i just bounced out of the award ceremonies for the math department -- i mean, they're geared towards undergrads and sure as hell wasn't winning anything from the grad students. the thing with the merit based awards is that they really don't....filter through to the people who could really deserve them. from the top down, they stop at the ( Read more... ) -
monte carlo fun
so this is a first for me. a lot of times in math and modeling, simulations are run thousands and thousands of times at slightly different values to see how the model reacts over large parameter sets. it's called a monte carlo simulation, and it allows a better sense of how the model works ( Read more... )