Accidentally in Code

Organization

  • Week in Brief

    Last week: Holiday Science Lecture – revise slides, either no text or needs to be translated Practice, Practice, Practice! Go skiing Spend minimal xmas with boyf and his parents – no tree, not many presents, as little fuss as possible. Make Twitter landing page and turn off follower notifications. Delete all Twitter follower notifications from…

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    Making, Managing, Creating – Time

    Sacha wrote a lovely post about her free time, and how she protects it. This led me to her reflections on overtime and the whole concept of “having too much time on your hands” by herself and by Cory Doctorow. (Incidentally, it’s great when people have large archives and link back to stuff you haven’t…

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  • Week in Brief

    For this week: Find out what’s going on with knee, really hope I can ski and kickbox again (will be tears if I can’t!). – things OK, got a “conservative” treatment plan, and I’m allowed to go kickboxing again (yay!) Gym 5 times. – four! PT nearly ended me on Tuesday, oooh the pain! CA…

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    20% of the Time, 80% of the Value

    If you look, you’ll see the Pareto Principle everywhere. Last week, I saw it in grad school. I was having my 20% – and it was awesome! But it does make me sad about the 80% of my time – this is the time that I spend marking, doing assignments that seem pointless and reading…

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  • Week in Brief

    Last week: Recreate conversational graphs from re-factored code Implement clique finding algorithm for Twitter Conversation Graphs Visualize results of clique finding Create presentation for class on Cliques/Conversation Graphs – see it here. Marking Re-marking previous assignment – couldn’t do this, have to investigate further for fairness. Girl Geek Dinner – Awesome, I blogged about it…

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    Scheduling at 80% of Capacity

    Lately, things have been somewhat chaotic. I don’t like it. It makes me stressed, overwhelmed, and unproductive. On Saturday, Treena and I headed out of town for breakfast and a chat. We caught up, and I was talking about how I had just hit this point where I was so overwhelmed I was having a…

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  • Week in Brief

    Last week was a bit of a disaster: For this week: Minor website edits Read 8 papers – was never going to happen Clear email… it’s got completely out of hand (worse than ever before) – made a lot of progress on this, but still lots left Social Capital, Trust Agents and the New Tribe…

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    Productivity for Minions

    Google this, there’s nothing useful. Someone needs to write a book on this! I’d buy it, would you? If not, hopefully it’s because you’re not a minion. Grad students are basically minions. I am the minion of my supervisor (luckily he’s nice), the minion of any prof whose course I take (to a lesser extent)…

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  • Week in Brief

    I didn’t get anywhere near what I wanted to done this week. Things took longer than expected, nothing went to plan and generally I’ve got to the point where I need a break. For this week: Finish website. With help from my kind neighbor whose cat I’ve took care of a couple of times –…

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