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Work, day 14

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Fwee
Old pic of Munin… but I like the way it turned out. His eyes (at least in the pic) were the same color as his shirt. Kinda crazy.

I guess that’s kinda hard to see at this resolution. Meh. Whatever. It looks really good full-size.
Maybe I should crop it closer… meh.

I kinda like the way the two pictures have totally different feels to them.
I think I’ve found stuff to print to use up my summer printing quota :D Yay for photoshopped pictars.

Vincent made a nice desktop pattern of me. Meh. With all the pictures of myself I’ve been posting lately, maybe I’m becoming narcisstic…
>_<

Work was productive today. Accuracy on some of the classifiers is still severely lacking (I think I got 40%/57% for recall/precision for one of the classifiers). Will play around with them more to improve that tomorrow. I think I just need more training examples.

Um… I’ve been incredibly hungry today. Are a big lunch (and part of Pooja’s). Had a sandwich and some cookies. Had a burger. Then went to Eat n’ Park with dlstern and Jordan and had another meal. And had a dish of sherbert. And I’m still hungry. Meh.
Food++

Ploot

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Yeah so today was kinda a bad day…
It started out with me waking up from a series of dreams that left me feeling really lonely. Meh.
Hopped onto IM to see who was online… no one.
Went back to sleep.

Woke up again a couple hours later, checked IM. Everyone either was not online, was busy, or already had plans. Meh. Went off to the cluster in hopes of finding people. Sat there for a couple hours and no one showed up. Bored and lonely me.

Headed to the UC to play DDR. Discovered that the ITG machine was back and put some money in it.
…
And it didn’t work. Lost a couple dollars.

Headed back to my room to see if any other interns were up/interested in stuff. No one was, and there was still no one online, so I grabbed my camera and planned to head to squill.
Turned the camera on… hm… that’s odd… it says the memory card is empty.
*checks*
Memory card error… okay, let’s format then.
*format*
Memory card error… um…
*camera locks up*
Well shit.
*tries card on computer*
*computer locks up*
Well shit.

So yeah, my 1 GB memory card for my camera is dead. I need a new one… for now, I’m on the 256 MB one that really sucks (although I’m sure no one will be sad that I can now *only* take 130 pictures on the card instead of my usual 551).
*siiiigh*

So then I went to squill and read books at Barnes and Noble for a while. Got lonely, headed back, ran into Tyler and peoples. Sat in the cluster for a while.

So at this point, I’m incredibly bored and incredibly lonely because everyone’s busy and such. I head off to walk around campus (because the weather at the time wasn’t terrible)… and walk around for about 3 hours and feel even more lonely.

Meh. Eventually I went back to the cluster and arranged to meet Alisa and watch some DVDs with her and Tyler. Did so, and now I’m not lonely anymore. Amazing how spending time with people can immediately make me feel better.
Wheee.

Licence plate of a truck Vincent and I saw yesterday while driving. Wheee.

Life is good, even if I did have kinda a sucky day.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my?

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Didn’t do much today…
Got up and went to breakfast with the other intern peoples (yummy chai!)… then bought hair dye at RiteAid. Got an amazing deal too… normally $8 a bottle… they were having a buy-one-get-one-free sale… and the two boxes had $2 off coupons on them. Got two boxes of hair dye for $4. I think I win.

Then, as I was leaving RiteAid, I ran into Vincent driving along Forbes.

Joined her in stopping by her apartment and then going to Anthrocon, which was rather… interesting. Furries are kinda funny… seeing lots of furries together is also kinda funny. Wheee.
Then we waited in a hotel lobby for her to meet friends at Anthrocon while she introduced me to guro (apparently porn that involves lots of death/gore/dismemberment… very disturbing) and made me very sad.
Then she proceeded to drive across a bridge. Bad idea. Spent the next half hour driving around lost, trying to find our way back to downtown Pittsburgh.

Then dyed my hair. This looks much nicer now (before is on the left)

Yay playing with saturation! :D I actually really like the way this turned out. Wheee colors. Wheee weird lighting angles.

Then headed clusterward, played some Starcraft, and went halfpricing with peoples.
So um, yeah. I should sleep and be productive tomorrow.

Work, day 10

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Whee today was really eventful…

So the morning was really unproductive. I spent it tinkering with my basic text parser to parse the samples into individual “training” files with the correct annotations, and failing miserably. Tinkered with MinorThird stuff and failed at understanding it. Also wrote a huge introspective LJ entry that made me feel a lot better about myself (again)… amazing how writing can help you deal with things, even if it’s not stuff anyone will ever (or will ever have the chance to) read.

Had lunch with Pooja again, and got delicious cookies. Then came back to campus to meet with Quinten (the research programmer)… in about 2 hours, I clarified the problem for him (he was misunderstanding the inputs and such), and we came up with a plan for me to tackle the task… so now I know what I’m doing Monday (and, if I feel motivated enough, this weekend). He’s amazing.

Plan of attack:
Write a pre-processor to do initial tagging of inputs (training data included) and manually annotate training data and write a Mixup program to tag numbers. Use this to extract numbers and given units. Also use it to train classifiers for the conversion type and the given column. Save said classifiers and build a parser that utilizes them when given new unlabelled input. Get MinorThird’s GUI running on my computer at work so all this is possible.

So yeah, I’m feeling a lot better about work… and life in general is still amazing and happy.
I knew I could do it :)

It’s weird… there are people all around me in relationships and hooking up (even in our small group of interns)… and for once, I’m not jealous. I don’t feel left out. It’s a good feeling.
I am missing a certain someone though… a lot… but that’s okay.

Also, I am covered in mosquito bites right now, but it was so worth it. A bunch of KGB peoples went to Frick park (funny… I work in the Frick building downtown), and we had a huge campfire complete with marshmallows, bad stories, and friends. I have pictars up in photos…

Went to Eat n’ Park with bohanlon afterward too. Wheee.

My iTunes library has had its biggest infusion of new music in a while. Between the $25 of music from the gift card, and the Cascada CD I ripped from Ally today, there’s over 40 new songs in my library, which is now at 1648 songs. Yay music!

I’ve been experimenting a lot with my artistic shots lately…
I like this a lot better than the full-color one…

Ditto with this one (original)

Dunno… it draws your attention more to the relevant parts, and I really like the contrast.

Hmmm… in this one, I think it hurts the overall image more than it helps (original here)… dunno… you just lose the warmth of the fire when you don’t see its light on the other people…

Life is good :)