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June 5 2004 |
June 5 2004
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COCOMO: Much fun with awk hacking with COCOMO.
I'm either WRONG or a few lines of awking
does as well as two decades of data collection and expert panels and
Bayesian tuning (and gawd knows what else). Tee hee. See
When is Enough Data Enough
NASA GRANT: This week, the dead walked. A NASA grant proposal that I written
with the Miami people, which we'd thought
was buried and forgotten, has risen from the dead.
A Team-X/abduction thing. The whole thing is $750K and the PSU share is
$240,000 over the
next three years. Hooray! Much celebration!
But now we have to make it all work. Boo!
CAR: Car mechanic rang- $3,500 in repairs to my 10 year old Jeep. A few
"lets prioritize things shall we?" sentences later got that done to $1K.
Still pretty ouchy. The NASA giveth and the mechanic-th taketh away.
ROSE FESTIVAL: Vancouver-ites NEVER speak of Portland.
So it is no surprise that we stumbled onto
Portland's biggest annual fireworks display (at the Rose Festival)
on Friday night, with no warning.
We were just out for a drive and
then the evening sky exploded. The crowds were too thick by then so we
just drove the city loop, Tim going "ooh, aah" and Helen going
"hey, Tim, you know you're still meant to be driving this car, right?"
TEACHING: Last class this week on the lite class. It became a
tutorial where all the guys filled my office and watched two of their
fellows take arms against a sea of tools. The cheer that rose up when
the second treated graph showed up on the screen that was better++
than the original- made an old teacher like me very happy.
RESEARCH: Hints from JPL that John Powell and LURCH are doing great
things with MER. Early days yet. Fingers crossed.
Been reading about
random forests. Cool stuff!
Had much fun coding up a
simulated annealer for COCOMO. Then realized
that it was massive over-kill. One of those real "stop! too much!
you've just wasted 10 days of your life!" moments.
Turns out that the model is simple enough for
an exhaustive search. Hence the above COCOMO results.
Had my second quarterly review for the MARTHA project. I made it sound
so complicated. Gonna have trouble explaining this to the crowd at
SAS.
FILMS:
The Day After Tomorrow
Not total crap. Moving and beautiful and
silly science. See it on the big screen.
Harry Porter 3: Prisoner of Azkaba Great great stuff. Dark and
adolescent in places. Hermione's brain and Harry's magic saves the
day. Meanwhile, Ron whines and whinges and ...