my future job
My father sent me this article recently about the psychology of failure within graduate school. As a child of academics heading pretty much full-speed ahead into the world of academia, it was a good...
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I promised a while back that I would talk about tenors: Peter Pears, Fritz Wunderlich, and Ian Bostridge. Manu lent me a cd of Ian Bostridge singing Schumann’s Dichterliebe with the (to me at the time)...
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Ari had a brilliant idea for a way to run chorus rehearsals. Soloist selection will be at random for each piece, but you won’t know if you have a solo until it’s time to sing it. The corresponding...
View ArticleLaTeX templates for conference posters
I hacked together a LaTeX template for conference posters for the Wireless Foundations Center. After searching around on the web I couldn’t find a package that was (a) easy to use, (b) allowed for...
View Articlemaybe we can get along
I recently installed Ubuntu on the computer I use at work, and am so much happier than I was running Windows. Ubuntu is a more user-friendly version of Debian, which is a godsend for laptops, since the...
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… and not enough solutions: Matching source and channel models for large sensor networks : I want to characterize when a fully-distributed set of gains can “match” a linear/matrix observation model...
View Articlea simple pleasure
The sunlight warming the back of your neck while you stand outside the shower waiting for the water heater to engage.
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In case the old jive filter still amuses you, someone has written Gizoogle. According to its version of my homepage: This was one of tha first projects I worked on at Berkeley spittin’ that real shit....
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An article at Left2Right reminded me of the movie Slam which I saw recently. Compared to the defenders discussed in the article, that one seemed competent and honest, if a bit hopeless and mean....
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