{"id":2055,"date":"2022-06-03T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T22:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2022-06-03T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T22:13:35","slug":"silico-paleontology-the-minnebar-16-talk-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2022\/06\/03\/silico-paleontology-the-minnebar-16-talk-that-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Silico-Paleontology: The Minnebar 16 talk that wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was all scheduled to give a talk at tomorrow&#8217;s Minnebar 16 entitled &#8220;Silico-Paleontology: Using graph databases to analyze evolved programs&#8221;. Than, last night, my left knee cap decided to slide off to places it didn&#8217;t belong, and I ended up in the ER where I received a very stylish knee brace\/immobilizer. I&#8217;m fine, and will be hopefully be back to normal in a week, but for now the idea of driving the 3ish hours each way to the Cities, the walking and standing and walking, etc., etc., isn&#8217;t really an option. So I&#8217;ll be missing a meetup with Morris folks tonight and one of my favorite tech events tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Even more annoying, I&#8217;d <em>finally<\/em> gotten around to scheduling a talk, and now that&#8217;s not happening either. I&#8217;ve thought pretty seriously about giving some sort of talk since I attended my first Minnebar in 2013, but the timing has always gotten in the way. Usually these things are in April, when the semester\/school year is getting quite chaotic, and the best of intentions run up against the realities of the job, and the talk always losing.<\/p>\n<p>This year, though, Minnebar is in the first week of June! So there was really no reason not to submit a talk, and I did. Several people had expressed interest on the website, and I was really looking forward to sharing some of the research work I&#8217;ve done with UMN Morris students over the years, meeting some new folks, etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>My knee, however, had other thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>And so when I would planning to be arriving in the Cities and checking into a hotel, I&#8217;m sitting here with my leg propped up babbling on the Internet. Sighz.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s time maybe I&#8217;ll write up a short version of the talk here, and if folks would be interested in more we can go from there.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/evolutionary-computation\/\" title=\"evolutionary computation\">evolutionary computation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/genetic-programming\/\" title=\"genetic programming\">genetic programming<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/graph-databases\/\" title=\"graph databases\">graph databases<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/knee\/\" title=\"knee\">knee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/minnebar\/\" title=\"Minnebar\">Minnebar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/sabbatical\/\" title=\"Sabbatical\">Sabbatical<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/year-of-programming\/\" title=\"Year of Programming\">Year of Programming<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/03\/30\/umm-students-are-just-so-cool\/\" title=\"UMM students are just <em>so<\/em> cool! (30 Mar 08)\">UMM students are just <em>so<\/em> cool!<\/a> (5)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/03\/10\/nothing-like-a-little-shameless-self-promotion\/\" title=\"Nothing like a little shameless self-promotion (10 Mar 08)\">Nothing like a little shameless self-promotion<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was all scheduled to give a talk at tomorrow&#8217;s Minnebar 16 entitled &#8220;Silico-Paleontology: Using graph databases to analyze evolved programs&#8221;. Than, last night, my left knee cap decided to slide off to places it didn&#8217;t belong, and I ended up in the ER where I received a very stylish knee brace\/immobilizer. I&#8217;m fine, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2022\/06\/03\/silico-paleontology-the-minnebar-16-talk-that-wasnt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silico-Paleontology: The Minnebar 16 talk that wasn&#8217;t&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[228,235,890,891,889,875,888],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-x9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":811,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/03\/06\/not-quite-a-wave\/","url_meta":{"origin":2055,"position":0},"title":"Not quite a wave","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"6 Mar 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes you're just minding your own business, trying to get a little science done, and a little art pops out at you all unexpected. 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