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Massive road trip, days 3-6 (oops)
Wow – lack of internet and the busy-ness of college visits and GECCO in Portland have once again put me behind on this. Enough so that my wonderful mother commented on it. Oops. Sorry. It’s day 11, and I’ll try to get us up to day 6 today :-). So, a quick recap, but generally [...]
Posted in Family, Travels Also tagged college visits, Glacier National Park, Glacier Park Lodge, Going-to-the-sun Road, Great Falls, honda fit, Lake McDonald, Portland, Reed College, Running Eagle Falls, Thomas, Tom, travel, Two Medicine Lake Comments closed
Evidence that crazy (and mean) is old as the hills
Since I’m swamped at GECCO (tutorial yesterday with Riccardo, our paper presentation tomorrow, etc., etc.), I’ll take a few moments to share some seriously weird (no, I mean seriously weird) old ads. The obviously unstable folks at Retro Comedy have collected what they bill as The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time. While I’m [...]
I tend to scribble a lot
A photo demonstrating how much I scribble on papers when I'm editing.
Posted in Computing, Education, My writing, Photography, Research, Science, Writing Also tagged editing, genetic programming, my photography, textbook, Writing Comments closed
MSP Humphrey terminal: A modern ghost town
The Hubert H. Humphrey terminal at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport was eerily empty and quiet today.
Posted in Computing, Events, Research, Science, Travels Also tagged conference, EuroGP, evolutionary computation, MSP, msp airport, travel Comments closed
You know, basic editing and lit review = teh good
Just finished my GECCO reviewing, and I must say that is seriously sucks when people don’t attend to even the most basic of issues. Two things almost guaranteed to majorly annoy a reviewer: Weird random floating fragments of text that are obviously the disemboweled remnants of some cut and paste action. Only 8 entries in [...]
Posted in Computing, Education, Research, Science, Writing Also tagged Computing, conference, evolutionary computation, genetic programming, Research, reviewing, Writing Comments closed
Wrapping one’s head around the data
JOCP! It’s been almost five days since I’ve posted anything here, and I have so much backed up in the queue… There’s a major conference deadline (GECCO 2008) in a few days, and I’m struggling to finish up four different (and only loosely related) papers for submission. On top of that I leave Sunday morning [...]
Posted in Computing, Events, Photography, Research, Sabbatical, Science, Travels Also tagged Computing, Dagstuhl, evolutionary computation, MICS, my photography, Research, Science, UMM Comments closed
Massive road trip, days 7-11