Author Archives: Alan V

Work, day 17

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Yeah so, today I got into work, wrote the final code for the number extraction, wrote a test suite for the entire parser, and hit run.
…
And got a ClassCastException.
A little bit of WTFing, and I discovered that what I thought were serialized Classifiers were actually serialized Results. Gaah. Spent about an hour regenerating the actual classifiers (luckily I got a new, faster computer so the experiments didn’t take 2 days…).
Then I hit run again.
Just like that, I had an 85% accuracy on the solution classification. I can raise that by improving my preprocessing (the way I’m currently tagging things is faulty). That’s on my todo list for tomorrow. Then, it’s tracking down the errors and seeing if they are easily fixable.
Notes to self: Add in negative ability (- sign, etc) and allow for multiple numbers in a single span.

So yeah… in the 5 hours I had at work today, I accomplished more than I had for the past 6 work days.

Came home feeling completely happy with myself. Amazing how much work manages to affect my mood, even when I don’t think it does. Yesterday I was feeling kinda meh because I hadn’t gotten much (read: anything) done at work. Today I got a lot done. Yay!
Can’t help but feel like I’m still a little behind, but whatever.

Pounded out a prelimary card list for Student Wars: Internships… not that anyone really cares. Will have cards for the PSLC interns and introduce the PSLC faction… which will do something that I’m not quite sure of yet :-P

Pipe! Whee!

Oh, and PICKLES!!! AHHHHH!!
XD XD XD

And thanks to chrisamaphone… WTF WTF WTF…

Whee

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Nothing interesting happening in my life, so this is a photo post.

I think this is my favorite so far of all my photoshopped shots. Besides being a beautiful shot on its own, the colorizing really makes the people stand out… I dunno. This looks *amazing* full-size. I think it would have been a lot less effective if there were fewer ripples in the puddle… dunno.

This one is much more effective full-size. I was trying to emphasize the people… after all, we’re all small compared to other stuff, but it’s people that really make the world what it is. Hopefully that kinda comes across.

I was taking pictures today and Greg commented on how the things that I picked out as “important” in a picture were unusual. For example, in a picture of a parking lot, I picked out the striped gate-thingies that let cars in and out as the thing I would highlight in a picture. I don’t know why they stood out to me, exactly… they just seemed like the right thing to emphasize.
Unfortunately, both shots of it came out blurry, so I guess we’ll never know… but I was reminded of the conversation as I was looking over the second photo. It now occurs to me that it’s rather unusual to choose to highlight the people over everything else in the photo. As I was doing it, however, they were the natural choice.
Hmmm…

I really need to make an “art” section of my site for all these photoshops (so I can post them bigger) and my photos from photo classes. Meh.

The world is full of beauty. I’m learning to take time when I’m out walking to really take in everything and enjoy it… and hopefully capture some of it in a photo.
…have I succeeded?

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++