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A big howdy from GECCO and Washington, D.C.

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I’m in the middle of GECCO 2005 here in Washington, D.C., with Ellery and Wayne (two UMM students/alums). We arrived Friday (WeatherGirl and my 16th anniversary!) and head back Thursday.

The conference has gone well so far, and today we skipped out some to check out some Smithsonian museums (a bit of time in Air and Space, Natural History, and then some solo time in the National Museum of African Art and the Sackler Gallery of Asian Art).

Internet sort of sucks here (more later), and Ellery and I don’t have our talk finished (and we present Wednesday), so I don’t know how much blogging there will be, but I’ll keep trying.

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My, I’d gotten rusty

Rusting metal parts at Helmshore Mills Textile MuseumI competed in a TopCoder programming competition for the first time in way too long, and it showed. I didn’t completely tank (I’ve certainly done worse), but it took too darn long to find some of those neurons and get them to fire. I hadn’t actually competed since last October, which was so far back that they’d taken me out of the ranking tables (I think you have to compete every six months to remain active), but this should restore that. Unfortunately being so rusty didn’t really help my rating much, and I dropped from a 1519 to 1487. This drops out of the yellow region of the ratings table and into the top of the blue region, which is the first time I’ve ever not been yellow since my first competition nearly 2 years ago. I’m quite bummed. With a little luck I should be able to compete several more times this summer, brush some of that dust off, and get back into mid-yellow where I think I belong.

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