Recent life events: 1. I bought a goofy vest (evidenced by this picture, where I am jutting my belly out. This is a defense mechanism to make myself look more menacing / less delicious to predators) 2. I decided to become a PhD student. I will focus on community informatics (technology for disadvantaged groups!) and medical informatics (health care / biomedical research + technology). I’ve turned down a full tuition offer from MIT in the process, which is probably the most incredible statement I’ve ever made in my life. 3. I caught a cold which promptly became a mega sinus infection. Little known fact; if flattened, my sinus cavities would circle the earth over three times. 4. I went to a showing of Chekhov’s Three Sisters today. The chairs hurt my bottom. A three hour Russian play was probably a bad choice. 5. My programming class (I affectionately call it ‘Programming for Muppets 202’) requires a final project, preferably in the form of a functional time machine. I was going to write a stupid machine learner (AI, kinda) called Nervous Nelly that tries to make decisions using an information-theoretic driven algorithm that inducts a decision tree, and does an incredibly wasteful three-ply search. Then I realized I’m taking Programming for Muppets and that there aren’t eight of me. Also, not enough time travel. 6. I recently spilled an entire bag of peanut M&Ms on Katie’s bed, and then somehow unleashed geological forces on them which pulverized them into the sheets. I am a moron.

Recent life events:

1. I bought a goofy vest (evidenced by this picture, where I am jutting my belly out. This is a defense mechanism to make myself look more menacing / less delicious to predators)

2. I decided to become a PhD student. I will focus on community informatics (technology for disadvantaged groups!) and medical informatics (health care / biomedical research + technology). I’ve turned down a full tuition offer from MIT in the process, which is probably the most incredible statement I’ve ever made in my life.

3. I caught a cold which promptly became a mega sinus infection. Little known fact; if flattened, my sinus cavities would circle the earth over three times.

4. I went to a showing of Chekhov’s Three Sisters today. The chairs hurt my bottom. A three hour Russian play was probably a bad choice.

5. My programming class (I affectionately call it ‘Programming for Muppets 202’) requires a final project, preferably in the form of a functional time machine. I was going to write a stupid machine learner (AI, kinda) called Nervous Nelly that tries to make decisions using an information-theoretic driven algorithm that inducts a decision tree, and does an incredibly wasteful three-ply search. Then I realized I’m taking Programming for Muppets and that there aren’t eight of me. Also, not enough time travel.

6. I recently spilled an entire bag of peanut M&Ms on Katie’s bed, and then somehow unleashed geological forces on them which pulverized them into the sheets. I am a moron.