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I came across something that I think is actually pretty neat.

One of my officemates asked me how I did my MATLAB email notifications.

I’ve been trying out emacs org-mode lately for keeping track of everything.

Taking LaTeX notes in real time is one of my favorite useless party tricks.

We got in a bit of a debate yesterday in the office over the implementation of associative containers, which I thought was pretty fun.

Several of my classmates in graduate school are considering making websites around now, and have asked me to explain it.

I wanted to make a list of a few tips on solving Project Euler problems that have been helpful for me while I solve them.

My girlfriend and I were out by the lake taking pictures recently.

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was fascinated with [ Conway’s Game of Life].

I have been watching Nathan Kutz’ lectures on Coursera.

I’ve been setting up long-ish runs on my MATLAB instance lately, which is nice because I can wanter off to do something else.

One thing I’ve been doing a bit of lately is debugging MATLAB mex files; it seemed worth documenting.

A while back, Sharvil requested a quick overview of how I post stuff to my blog, so I thought I’d post a rundown of it.

Somehow, in the process of a router reconfiguration, I reset the password without the new password getting saved into 1Password.

I was interviewed and given a semi-prominent placement in Northwestern’s McCormick Magazine for the outreach work that 2011-2012 NU-IEEE President Curtis Wang and I have put together.

I attended a talk on how to use Quest, Northwestern University’s TOP500 supercomputer(At least during June 2010).

In my recent quest to take on digital photography, I’ve been using Apple’s Aperture to store download my pictures and do basic manipulation on them.

I’ve signed up for the Chicago 2012 Marathon with Team To End AIDS or my donation page–PLEASE!

In my running, I have been trying to keep track in kilometers.

Recently I’ve decided to dedicate a slight bit of time to get a bit better at taking pictures.

I’ve been wanting to have a way to visualize which unit tests(or sets of them) passed for a given commit, if for no other reason than the sense of accomplishment from watching boxes turn yellow, then green, as they pass tests.

Just for my own reference, I’m documenting the interface to CPLEX.

I came across this post.

what spamfunc is In developing optimization algorithms, one of the most tedious parts is trying different examples, each of which might have its own starting points or upper or lower bounds or other information.

One of the semi-frustrating aspects of the state of computing and ham radio is the unavailability of some software packages on OSX.

I’ve now (for the most part) finished a working version of some software I’ve wanted to tackle for a while.

In the course of working through my first year at grad school, I’ve come up with five favorites for the basics of an undergrad understanding of the essential topics for applied math and physics.

I misunderstood an officemate’s question yesterday and set out to compile gnuplot.

I finally got annoyed at typing tjohnson> scp tcj:*txt . zsh: no matches found: tcj:*txt I’d always fixed this by the up-CTRL-A-over-over-over-over-quote-CTRL-E-over-over-quote method, ie tjohnson> scp "tcj:*txt" .

My workflow is probably pretty specific, but I figured I’d document it for people looking for ideas on how to set it up.

I’m in the process of kicking the MATLAB habit and replacing it with Python.

In a short break from studying for tomorrow’s preliminary exam, I came across a TED talk about Why We Know Less About the World Than Ever.

In a similar vein to the TED talks in the previous post, I’ve also been watching a lot of lectures from iTunes U lately.

I’ve been downloading a lot from iTunes recently, both in the form of TED talks and iTunes U videos.

Recently, at a family gathering, I was confronted by the question many a college graduate is faced after telling someone I had majored in mathematics for my now-finished college degree: “But how are you going to make any money at that?”

I am in no way qualified to write a proper goodbye to the late Mr.

I really like the idea of having a wiki website.

I’m slowly feeling more and more that I want some more compartments in my blogging.

To install the mysqldb module in python on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

Wow.

I got frustrated with not being able to write MySQL because I don’t do it often enough to be seeing it in my nightmares like MATLAB.

I finally committed to graduate school a few weeks ago.

Almost a month ago, I was helping my good buddy Beals get his Wordpress website set up.

My girlfriend’s TiVo only has an ethernet port.

I’ve officially been accepted to two PhD applied math programs: Northwestern and University of North Carolina.

Winter quarter 08, the hosts.allow files used by tcpwrappers was getting unwieldy.

I’ve been meaning to write this tip up for quite a while, but now that I’ve finally gotten some closure on it, I guess now would be a decent time.

I finally finished graduate school applications last weekend.

I found a great little LaTeX homework layout for typesetting math homeworks a while back, and I’ve meant to write it up for quite a while.

Life is keeping me so crazy that I should not be taking the time to write this, but posting a link here was irresistable.