July 2010
5 posts
I'm learning! I'm learning!
This summer has been like an expertly crafted lesson—just the right back-and-forth play of learning from papers and learning by experimentation. This week, I finally managed to read a paper my Prof tried to send me at the beginning of the project. It describes at an abstract level almost everything we’ve figured out this summer. I could take it as a rug-out-from-under-me moment, but...
Sick and trying to work from home
I can’t decide if I’m more relieved to not be distracted/taken down alternate paths by my co-workers, or more held back by not being able to communicate with them readily.
I wonder how many texts I can send before I get annoying.
Here’s what I’m working on. Remember those nets from last week? Well, you can think of each net as something called a spanning tree:
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Touch it...Touch it I say!: On Teenagers and... →
I have a real problem with some of the comments and behavior, both from editors and commenters, in defense of teenage contributors on Ladyblog. The masthead says “…for women,”, yes? Then the assumption is that the average reader is going to be an adult. Readers of a website that markets itself and…
Nope. A quarter of the world population is under 15 and you are not by default entitled...
What my job is like in the first week
The people are nice, and we get to play with polygon building toy like at the Children’s Museum, and we have little breakthroughs that build off of each other, back and forth.
We wonder a lot about how to explore the space of all nets. How big is it? How should we define distance between nets? What’s the simplest way to conceive/encode a particular net?
Co-worker and Prof often...
