--- Day changed Mon Sep 15 2008
01:23 < kanzure> Heh. In an email I'm writing at the moment, I have this idea going:
01:23 < kanzure> I can randomly generate new designs for experiments using WordNet or Cyc relations or something, where we observe mice subjected to a battery of different psychochemical compounds. Then, using WordNet, we can pull out random labels for each of the behaviors, maybe it's a "goal" or maybe it's 
01:23 < kanzure> a who knows what that the creature supposedly intrinsically has, and then what? You'd plot the data sets in some multidimensional manner, maybe a State Vector Machine, I'd have to ask some mathematicians, 
01:23 < kanzure> and then there's this strong likelihood of statistical irrelevance of assigning these labels to the different phenotypes observed in experiments. These same "phenotypes" are the things of folk psychology as well. The trick is that instead of observing rats, you're observing people.
01:45 < kanzure> http://www.adciv.org/Main_Page manufacturing + post-scarcity wiki
01:51 < kanzure> Joseph correctly understands that all of the 'open manufacturing' and 'post-scarcity' advocates are far too fragmented
01:51 < kanzure> part of the problem is that it's all ungrounded and that's why it's fragmented .. by 'grounded' I mean few of us have the machines, tools and so on to show how this stuff works
02:22 < ybit> joseph, it's not christopher?
02:22 < ybit> grr
02:22 < ybit> charles
02:22 < ybit> http://www.adciv.org/User:CharlesC
02:23 < ybit> http://rand.rice.edu/research.php
02:23 < ybit> ^ quite
02:23 < ybit> ..nice
02:24 < ybit> sounds like the whoever goes through that program would be working with intel
02:24 < ybit> would/will
02:46 < kanzure> Hrm.
02:46 < kanzure> I've been insightful lately. I'm going to forget all of it, so before I do, what should I do? Writing doesn't work, coding doesn't work - all of the data is getting in too slowly for me to do anything productive with it - so what's left?
02:52 < kanzure> Hey spookact.
02:52 < spookact> what's up kanzure
02:53 < kanzure> World domination. 
02:54 < kanzure> Hm. I need to go document some progress on stuff.
03:54 < kanzure> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP
03:54 < kanzure> are preprocessor directives the right way to go about it?
05:07 < kanzure> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization
05:07 < kanzure> 'Ephemeralization is a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller. It refers to the ability of people to use technological advances to continuously do more with less. '
05:09 < kanzure> http://www.adciv.org/User:CharlesC
05:37 < bkero> Sweet, hulu added the second season of regenesis yesterday.  http://www.hulu.com/regenesis
05:43 < kanzure> "brainblast"
05:43 < kanzure> all of these materials handbooks
05:43 < kanzure> the main thing that they are good for is their graphs of the characteristics of the materials
05:43 < kanzure> there's only a finite number of variables, right?
05:44 < kanzure> page segmentation algorithms to look for graphs on the pages
05:44 < kanzure> then do some curve analysis
05:44 < kanzure> or data point recovery etc.
05:45 < kanzure> Unfortunately, this only works when you're certain of the context of the data plots .. not all graphs give their full context in the caption, but perhaps it can be implied from the subject of the paper or document or page - kinda crappy assumption, but meh
07:02 < kanzure> There's this small, small chance that the excel data format that they provide on matweb.com might be usable
07:03 < kanzure> free registration required
07:03 < kanzure> doesn't work in konqueror
07:03 < kanzure> was figuring I'd code up wget --save-cookies with the login form and then load 'em up for the excel spreadsheet request
07:03 < kanzure> but, sleep
16:05 < kanzure> who are all these peoples?
16:06 < kanzure> http://www.cultureshop.org/details.php?code=COCOREV
16:11 < faceface> no idea
16:12 < faceface> hopefully I'll have some movies for you
16:12 < faceface> lets see if they send them out...
16:28 < kanzure> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html
16:44 < faceface> what if I don't like mushrooms?
16:45 < kanzure> you expect me to actually view the link?
16:45 < kanzure> I kid
16:45  * kanzure is hard pressed for time at the moment, will get back to the shrooms later
16:57 < kanzure> UTCS Corporate Connection/FoCS:  Mark Kilgore & Serkan Piantino/Facebook:  "What Makes Engineering at Facebook Unique" ACES 2.402, Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:00 p.m.
16:57 < kanzure> ooh
16:58 < kanzure> http://www.facebook.com/utaustincareerexpo
16:58 < kanzure> maybe I should go be antisocial with them
17:01 < faceface> facebook apparently recommends friends
17:02 < faceface> I have a story about a future like that that I shoudl really write up at some point
17:02 < kanzure> how does the whole social networking thing work with the whole urge to stab them in the face
17:02  * kanzure questions these 'engineers'
17:10 < faceface> you want to stab the social network in the face?
17:10  * faceface invites kanzure to 1001 social networks
17:15 < kanzure> you mean one of those auto subscriber sites?
17:15 < kanzure> those are interesting, but they're just like all the others because they're a website and not a script I can download
17:15 < kanzure> I want to stab the users of the social nets in the face, that is
17:15 < kanzure> the classic bash.org CRT through which you can stab people
17:16 < kanzure> UTCS Corporate Connection/FoCS:  Joseph Sirosh/Amazon.com:  "Ahead in the Cloud: The Power of Infrastructure as a Service" ACES 2.402, Thursday, September 24, 2008 4:30 p.m.
20:07 < kanzure> Anybody try out metweb for me? :/
20:10 < kanzure> http://books.google.com/books?id=gWg-rchM700C&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=matml&source=web&ots=xGE7qCZzph&sig=Fy1KjJ7-R3a06E9Hwhq7jWteJoc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=46&ct=result handbook of materials selection, mentions matml
20:14 < kanzure> CODATA "International Register of Materials Database Managers" for possibly useful index
20:15 < kanzure> "Ericsson (1998) posted his graudation thesis, 'Materials Information on the Internet', containing ~200 site links, well classified and individually annotated."
20:15 < kanzure> lemme see now
20:15 < kanzure> give me 75 graduate degrees, foo
20:15 < kanzure> Ericcson owes me a beer.
20:18 < bkero> Heh
20:18 < bkero> kanzure: Give me your big processings jobs.  I want to see how fast I can crunch through them.
20:18 < kanzure> For the automated design lab work?
20:18 < bkero> Sure
20:19 < kanzure> Yeah, wait, how many nodes again can you give me? I'm wanting to do 10,000 to 10,000,000 permutations on designs or something (though not saving that final data set of course, only the good stuff). 
20:21 < bkero> 8 cores worth across 3 machines ATM
20:21 < bkero> All ~3GHz 64-bit
20:22 < kanzure> Hrm, I'm not sure the code base is utilizing multiple cores yet. I'll have to fix this.
20:22 < bkero> Thread it out :)
20:22 < bkero> If it's only single core I'll crank that shit through my 4.4GHz Opteron
20:23 < kanzure> You bastard.
20:23 < bkero> Haha
20:23 < bkero> Single core 4.4 < dual core 3
20:23 < bkero> < quad core 3
20:32 < kanzure> Why can't *I* get a master's with 200 links?
20:33 < kanzure> what's that, like an hour of bookmarking?
20:33 < kanzure> jesus
20:33 < kanzure> argh
20:33  * kanzure goes to class before he turns into the hulk
20:33 < nsh> don't aspire to other people's standards
20:33 < nsh> :-)
20:33 < kanzure> bah!
20:51 < bkero> kanzure: Come on, he had to write a 200 page dissertation on his links.
20:58 < procto> pfft materials research
20:58 < procto> there are only 2 material you should should know
20:58 < procto> graphene
20:58 < procto> and nitinol
20:58 < procto> one for things out of side of squishbodies
20:58 < procto> the other for things inside squishbodies
21:04  * nsh wants to squishbodies
22:10 < kanzure> bkero: Bah! Extract the metadata from the links, problem solved.
22:10 < bkero> Heh
22:10 < kanzure> There are far more than 200 sites using the metadata.
23:17 < kanzure> ybit: For fsck sake, I *have* the entire Nature collection.
23:17 < kanzure> What the hell do you need this 'access' thing for ?
23:56 < ybit> A unified vision of the building blocks of life, Jamey D. Marth - p1015 of Nature Cell Biology
23:56 < ybit> kanzure^
23:56 < kanzure> Lemme see if I have it.
23:56 < ybit> k
23:57 < ybit> september 2008
23:57 < ybit> latest issue
23:57 < kanzure> No, I don't.
23:57 < kanzure> I'll fetch.
23:57 < ybit> oh, it must be nice
23:57 < kanzure> ?
23:57 < ybit> to have access
23:58 < ybit> instant* access
23:58 < kanzure> I don't understand why Google doesn't do autoindexing with the publishers.
23:58 < kanzure> oh right, because life sucks
23:59 < kanzure> http://nature.com/ncb/ is ironically refusing me.
23:59 < kanzure> If you can get me the exact link to the PDF, I can run it through a once-only proxy link thingy.