I don’t buy the arguments against congressional term limits.
The big one is that if representatives know they don’t need to get re-elected then they won’t care about what their voters think and thus will not represent their electorate…
umm, they don’t currently care a great deal about their electorate except fo [...]
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Demand Congressional Term Limits?
I don’t buy the arguments against congressional term limits.
The big one is that if representatives know they don’t need to get re-elected then they won’t care about what their voters think and thus will not represent their electorate…
umm, they don’t currently care a great deal about their electorate except fo [...]
In your face Bozo Sort!
FINALLY!
I have been so busy with family, the Phd, research, new job (learning to be a real developer instead of a neuroscientist who plays with computers) – geesh, …I would solve Project Euler problems, for fun, when I had time. And of course, there were tough ones (and a few I still haven’t beaten – dang you Silver [...]
Apple’s Death Star
Wow, that’s a whole lot of patent troll ca$h Apple just extracted from Samsung!? Why do people support Apple, when Apple takes from their devotees way too high a profit margin on all their items? It’s some weird form of Stockholm Syndrome where, since you were already leached so much money by this company, you now feel obligated [...]
Boycott Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contes...
TEAM KOBI!
Watching the hot dog eating contest has become somewhat of a tradition for me. It’s just good fun, taken to such a high (absurd) level that you can’t help but to be impressed.
The legend Kobayashi truly raised the level of competition and helped take the eating contest to the masses. Unfortunately, the grinding, powerf [...]
Better Peer-Review,… and less money g...
Now that I’m doing research outside of Academia and don’t rely quite as much on publishing to validate my self-worth J (and secure my family’s future), I thought I would not be so passionate or frustrated with the whole research article publishing process. I am, however, still trying to publish work from my last gig – and I [...]
What the!? “mouse Drag Operation Fail...
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!??
This took me half a day to fix! So I’m posting it in the hopes that at least one person will find this (and not the countless other useless posts) and be saved from an ever so stupid little glitch that needs a little bit better error message!
I’ll tell you the fix, right up front.
The majority of the fix wa [...]
Google Code Jam 2012 – Round 1B...
Just like last year, I decided to go for the ‘harder’ second question first – with the strategy of getting more points in a shorter time so I could get in the first 1000 and move on. My coding skills are much better this year, I thought, so even though this strategy failed for me last time – I thought it was the way [...]
Heading to Washington DC
The annual Society for Neuroscience Conference begins in a week! I present my newest work at the final session on the final day – not sure if anyone will stick around
Poster 889.08 – Epigenetic mechanisms in temporal lobe epilepsy
Wed Afternoon session 11/16
Come by and say hello.
I’m a Doctor
Yay, I presented my dissertation yesterday (see below). Now I’m a doctor
Shawn dissertation NRSF
Added 08/18/2011: Got 45 minutes? Here’s the video
link
My #WPAppItUp Prototype – STuMP
Here’s my sketchflow quick mock up for a windows phone app (game). Click here.
The idea being direct competition between people for these brain teaser type games and quizzes. Fun and good brain exercise.
I’ll develop it if I win a developer phone
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/07/29/mango-device-l [...]
Project Euler – Crazy Function
update:
HAHA! Got it!
With some Mathematica help on solving summations. I managed to see the ‘easy’ pattern everyone talks about in the forum that gets unlocked upon solving it! Boy I really over did this one
(4 a^2 (2 + b) + a (b (9 + 5 b – 5 c) – 8 c) -
3 b (2 + b) c + (4 a – 3 c) (-2 + a – Mod[b, a]) M [...]
Ahh, too slow in 1B Google Code Jam &...
Oh man! I had it. If only I was as fast as these guys to the left!
I got short and long for the 1st problem (but almost everyone did).
I was so close to finishing the second one, (I would have had to get the long set as well at that point in the competition to make the top 1000).
Don’t know if I want to try at 2am my time the round 1C&# [...]
Round 1A – Pseudominion Busted ...
Hmmm… Google code jam really took it to me in Round 1A. I thought I would be clever and use strategy to get into the top 1000.
I knew my strengths and weaknesses.
Weakness- only a month of programming experience and in Python (which doesn’t execute as fast as C++), so speed is not my friend
Strength- problem solving ability
So, a [...]
Google CodeJam 2011 GoroSort!!! 55pts...
GORO!!!
All I had to do was find the number of elements out of place!! I actually thought I tried that! GCJ
Well, I got 3/4 problems correct. On one of them I didn’t get the Long data set because I didn’t realize I could only try once so I had not yet optimized my code (I thought I could gauge how much optimization I would requir [...]
Switchover and Update
Welcome to 2011! I’m in the process of a server switchover and website update.
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