Sunday, July 26, 2009

Go Lester!

There's a reason our house is called the NerdFrat: Lester's team is on top of the Netflix leader board again! This time, they passed the threshold for the $1,000,000 prize. Go Lester!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Progress

Finished my edits for the Flapjax paper... now to keep ploughing through the backlog of other papers from the past 2 years. Ben seems to have seen through me: he's making me start the new browser security one already. Yikes. Academia is weird.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Summer Research

The sausage factory sure is ugly. Dealing with ~15 years of backwards-compatible interpreter source code is making my summer hacking much slower than normal =/ Starting to get the hang of it..