sillydreamer

I have some awesome labmates/office mates.

Bill La Cava (finishing having lunch together after a talk): OK I need to pee. I mean, I have to go.

(Bill also makes the best coffee in the world. It makes the office smell so nice in a cloudy Monday afternoon!)

Scarlet brings us chips and give us candies.

#!/bin/bash # for 61

# put script in directory with pdfs # make a subdirectory, move the pdfs there and make that the working directory mkdir outputEPS cp *.pdf outputEPS/ cd outputEPS

# convert all pdf to ps for filename in *.pdf; do    #echo "$filename"    pdf2ps "$filename" done

# convert all ps to eps for filename in *.ps; do    ps2eps "$filename" done

runner’s high;

/ˈrənərs hī/

Just writing something down here for myself to read back later...

For me, running has always been good, but it didn’t become great until I started training with others, following a rigorous schedule. 

Tuesday. 5:45. At this time, it has always been dark, but these days the sun is not even out when we finish training. Getting up at 5:30 is never that hard for me, especially when the AC is set at 78F. But Tuesdays speedwork has always been the hardest part of the training every week. It’s early. I’m often still tired from Monday. And of course it’s speedwork, which means I have to encourage my legs “Come on, legs!” every minute, whether we do a 400, 600, 800, 1200, 1 mile, or 1.5 miles. It’s tough. When I pushed myself too hard, I have doubts. During the 8x600s last week, I wanted to give up so bad during the 6th one. 

The rest of the training, believe it or not, is very enjoyable. Thursday hills and tempo could be challenging, especially when you have jack rabbits like Brett running with you and pushing you. Nevertheless, the laughs and stories and experience we share with each other worth all the sweat and sunburn and fatigue. Saturday long runs are sometimes hard at the end, but we stick together and keep each other entertained, even when we get lost. Our M2B group is awesome, and I love every single person: Sarah, Alex, Skye, Archadia, Bryon, Brett and I. The hardest long run I did was last Friday with Brett when we did a progression for 13 miles, running from 10min/mile to 8:35 min/mile during the first 10. We didn’t have the group with us, and we only stopped twice for water.

Monday recovery runs are frequently fun. It can be a bit tough when we run fast and it gets hot, but recently, without the most adorable but super intense coach Sydney, we have enjoyed it quite a bit. :P

- coffee, egg and toasts (cranberry and walnut)

- deep learning reading: 

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

https://adeshpande3.github.io/adeshpande3.github.io/A-Beginner's-Guide-To-Understanding-Convolutional-Neural-Networks/

https://adeshpande3.github.io/adeshpande3.github.io/A-Beginner's-Guide-To-Understanding-Convolutional-Neural-Networks-Part-2/

https://adeshpande3.github.io/adeshpande3.github.io/The-9-Deep-Learning-Papers-You-Need-To-Know-About.html

P.S. Adit Deshpande is pretty awesome!

At lab/LIBR:

- read papers

- continue writing dissertation

- code: analyze data

- math: pseudopotential, vortices

- read some more

During lunch:

- coursera video on scientific writing 

https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite

Evening: 

- code some more

- cook

- write up pseudopotential math in TeX

- multivariate mixed effect model can be done manually by melting data frames, not quite an R package for it yet though; nested random effect is cool

- AIC/BIC depends on sample size; subjects with high leverage may have large effect on the significance of variables in regression models