I haven’t had much to talk about lately– the Probabilistic Graphical Models course is eating up my time like crazy: I haven’t had time to do anything but that and prepare my lectures and homeworks for the Matlab/Mathematica course– but I have been...

Ubuntu 9.10, or Windows 7? I like the idea of Ubuntu, and I can do almost everything I want with it, with the important exception of easily accessing the campus wireless network. I also don’t know if it interfaces with projectors as easily as Windows...

I’ve discovered, once again, the problem with using random test cases. I thought I’d come up with some nice manipulations that reduced the nonnegative least squares problem to a problem on a polytope (more relevantly, a bounded convex set), so I could...

I always forget how to make animations in MATLAB, and I never knew how to make animated gifs before. I figured this out for the MATLAB course, but I don’t think I’ll go over it in class, since I don’t want to get into handle graphics nastiness. But for...

I know several mathematicians read this blog. Hahahahahaha. Seriously, if you are an element in this set and are interested in participating in the Nerve.com “Sex Advice From” column, let me know. They’re looking for mathematicians to go through an...