a grad student's tale of survival in the face of absurd web programming models, systems insecure almost by design, disconnected language theories, and the berkeley meat grinder
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..
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