RantTV: Internet TV Worth Watching

RantTV: Internet TV Worth Watching: "currently one episode, which you can download"

Since I don't have TechTv here on campus, since G4 bought them out and not broadcast over the cband. So as another option I been watching some of the great shows on Rantv.com over winamp. They talk about wireless stuff on seatle wireless and Kevin Rose from TechTv has a show called The Broken which was awsome. The first show is downloadable http://www.thebroken.org/ They sit on a couch and drink beer and talk about hacking and stealing pizza. It reminds me of the first few years TechTv when it was more of a underground type show and they could get away with a lot of things before getting to commericalize.

Change of plan (or plane) and thesis update

Me and Mike Usselman are going to fly down to LAX Tuesday August 24 and hang out with Venkatesh Tatineni. Mike will be back on Monday August 30, if we book a plane so he can be back in time for the start of school and his class. Thats about 6 days or less of hanging out with friends. Should be Mikes first time on the plane, should be different.

Thesis have to get it reviewed again, and probably rewrite a little so my teacher would think it is better. I'm having Venk take a look at it right now and hopefully should be done. I also set a date for the defense to be August 4th maybe around 1:30pm or something. That is also the day of another orientation. I got to get my car fixed so I can go get a suit and haircut.  

Added some comics

I added some comics to my comedy page. These are some comics strips that I made last year (and one is from a friend, Venk).  Enjoy.

Flight Travel Made

I just booked my ticket online at southwest airlines for about $120 to fly from Albany, NY @ 6:50 AM to Baltimore, Maryland @ 8:00AM then from Baltimore, Maryland @ 9:35AM to Los Angeles, CA @ 12:00pm. It will be a Friday, August 27th. Now I got to try to ship all my books, computer stuff, and misc. stuff to California.  

Thesis 99% done, Presentation 50% done

Almost done with the thesis, I have to change the names in the thesis to reflect the committee of professors (Roger Cavallo, Rosemary Mullick, and Jorge Novillo), and delete an empty page, then I will pay .50 cents to bind them. so if everything is alright tomorrow I'll probably make 5 bounded copies ($2.50) 1 for each professor and 2 for myself. I'm just hoping they like it. Roger asked me if he was going to enjoy the thesis. What am I suppose to say, I wrote it but not satisfied-- am I ever going to be satisfied with it? He also said it was a coincident that his son ,whom I think is going for his PHD, was also reading a Barto book (Sutton and Barto write a lot on reinforcement learning). and asked if he is mention in my thesis. I said yes of course.  

Car & Thesis

Ok, the car not working again!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its the 4th time this summer, hoping it can be a simple battery problem and not something with the starter again.

I asked Roger Cavallo and Rosemary Mullick to be the two professors on my thesis committee. I'm having Keith Johnson still read and mark mistakes, I'm hoping to get the thesis in to them sometime tomorrow so they can look at it, and I begin to hope everything is alright.

 

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MTV.com - Onair - Dyn - Assistant

MTV.com - Onair - Dyn - Assistant

Just got done watching MTV's "The Assistant" with andy dick as an asshoe with several assistants trying to please him. It was some of the funniest stuff I seen in a while.

I went to see my advisor today, I just had to change the margin to more width and little other little things. Im having keith johnson edit my bad english in my thesis, I also went through one more time making sure my logic was correct throughout the paper. I should have my defense sometime early next week.

I still have to get my plane ticket sometime before Aug 5th if I want to get it cheap for about 115 dollars.

I got most of the power point done, but have to time it to see if it takes about 30 minutes with the program examples.

Another Lazy Saturday

Just watch tv cartoons/anime on the Adult Swim, and  Mad TV today. This morning I just watch tv on winamp mostly today: desync.com Love Hina, I also watched Ferenhiet 9-11 for free :o, and ranttv.com, hay when tv is boring try internet tv.

Bored.....

I'm so bored ahhhhh, need something to do other then watch tv. Im taking a small break with the thesis today, Im having Keith take a look at it for proof reading, since me english is no not good nomore.

Thesis Paper (Sprint Time)

Well the professor wants me to be able to finish my work by next week and present. Mix emotions here: Happy:- won't have to pay another 400+ dollars for 1 credit and come back in December. Worry:- Have to get my paper up to code by this FRIDAY ahhhhhhhhhhh. Nervous:- I have to ask for two other professors to sit in on my presentation and then also present. Don't know who I'm going to ask for. I might try Cavallo, but his questions can be difficult, and I might try Rosemary even though I don't know her that well (only had her once in my undergraduate class first semester) but I think she got her PHD dissertation in A.I. so that could be interesting. If I want it easy I probably pick some undergrad teachers and such. Oh well been here to long back to the typing and coding. Hope everything works out.......

Over/Spun

Over/Spun
Another great political site, mostly funny. My favorite stuff is the O'Reilly's Lies, Rushy Maguire is a little humourous. There is a lot of political humor here. Its the only way I like to listen to politics most of the time, because I usually get fed up watching normal news and how the conservatives in the US are taking over and calling people who are not on their side: tree hugging hippies, who are not patriotic and unamerican and how they should leave america and support terrorism in France. I agree with Michael Moore, where he basically said he (and I) want to stay in America and make it great again. The gap between the rich and poor is a large divide and keeps growing which just leads to anger and jeolousness from the poor. Growing up with little money, I feel this anger. One reason I like John Edwards, he started off poor and changed that. I believe this is what most americans want and Im not trying to take that away, but there are a few, all conservative republicans, who want to make laws that make it tough for us poor people to confortably. Its ridicolous how much it cost to live, even in a cheap low living standard like New York. Where paying for electricity, and gas to heat the homes are costing upto $300 a month. Thats a lot of money to use poor people, then we have to worry about increase gas prices, cheap food that isn't of any quality, etc... I hope I never become a republican. Ill end this rabbiling from one of my favorite quotes from Winston Churchill that went something like:

You have no heart if you are not a liberal when you are young, and you have no brain if you are not a conservative when you are old.

Jorge Novillo - CS Dept. -� SUNY� Inst of Tech

Jorge Novillo - CS Dept. -� SUNY� Inst of Tech

Well I went to see my advisor hoping to see him today, and I know he wasn't in all day today. My thesis which I left under his door is still there. I'm hoping he has off today because the secretary was also gone. I'll try again the next day. I'm up to 57 pages in my thesis so far. Still have to add my findings of the Tic-Tac-Toe programs for MC, TD(0) and DP. I have been playing with the MC mostly yesterday, got it working the way I want it to. It is exploring, im hoping when I lower the alpha contrant and epsilion-greedy value it will become more greedy and play better, but now I'm trying to get the exploration to reach about 6000 states, currently im on 3024.

Got my car back today

it cost about $700 to repair, way to much IMO. I'm hoping to sell the car sometime in august and get my money back plus an additional $300 - $800. I will probably make my plans to go to California sometime in August. I have turned in my thesis of what I have done so far to my advisor so he can look at it. He wasn't in today when I went, so I figure I'll go tomorrow and see if I can see him. I saw him during the freshman orientation and he said "We need to talk very soon". Sounds scary hope nothing is wrong, other then that I haven't seen him in 5 months. :)

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Added some stuff to the Comedy page today.

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Not much happening

Worked on my program of the Monte Carlo Tic-Tac-Toe, been having problems and fixing them. Right now my problem is that the program is not exploring enough. It reaches only 1000+ states and stops exploring. I would like it to reach 4000 - 6000 states when it is learning. I figure I'll work on this some more and start making the TD(0) next then Dynamic Programming last. I figure the DP will probably end up to be the best, even though the other two methods are an improvement on DP.
 
I have to go visit my advisor this Monday, and  get my car. I will try to finish a section on TD-lambda hopefully this Sunday afternoon.  Got about 3 weeks to get my shit together and still have to worry about www.4gbg.com also.
 
I will also need to get my paper proof read and fixed to the CS standard for publication after all that. I probably won't make the 8/8/04 deadline and will pay $400 for 1 credit hour extension. That will mean I will have to return during christmas break, if I have a job, and present my thesis then.

Freshman

Been busy lately with the freshman orientation, mostly driving and eating food for once. The same bull shit presentation we give to the normal students but 100% more shit. Oh Well

Car & Money

Well the car needs a new alternator and gas liner to stop leak. Should cost about $400 and take a week to fix. :(

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Thesis Checklist

Not much left to the thesis, I hope. Still have to discuss Temporal Difference decay, TD- Gammon, write 3 programs of tic-tac-toe using DP, MC and TD(0), a write up on my findings of these methods. That should be everything, probably talk to my advisor and re-edit the paper as needed and change wording if I don't like it. I also probably need to find out how the layout of the bibliogrpahy and citing will need to be done.

Today and Yesterday sucked.

Yesterday I had to work up in Mohawk from 4pm to 12am for free of course without any compusation. Thats 31 hours in the office and 54 hours out of the office on-call this week. (*Drum Roll*)Making a total of 85 hours this week!!!! FUCK ME.

Getting back to my day:

I planned ahead and went to get a movie: The Butterfly Effect (a good movie, love the extras about chaotic dynamical systems, hehe math) and a Xbox game: Hitman Contracts. So you would expect everything to be on the good, but on the way back my car's battery light came on and I have no clue why.

Today I went to get in my car and it wouldn't work, but gave it a second try and it worked. I went to drop of the game and movie just incase there was something wrong with the car figuring it should at least run until I turn it off again. So I go to blockbuster without having take a shower, wearing the same clothes from yesterday and my hair is all messed up. So on the way back from blockbuster my car finally died again (3rd time this summer). I called the tow truck and they wont look at the car until Monday, and I had to walk home.

I decided to walk since I was only 1 hr walk away from home, but 1 hr of walking sucks when wearing loose jeans that fall down, unwash hair and the warm sun beaming down. Hey Im a Comp Sci major, if I see the sun more then once a year it was to much. To include in the walk I had my backpack full with my xbox and stuff adding weight on my tired shoulder.

I get home and rest for an hour and a half before I go back into the office again.
I'm here in the office trying to waste time, I wrote a review of the Hitman:Contracts for the 4GBG.com website.

DJ Will

DJ Will

Added more music and changed the color scheme to meet my website design.

Photo Album

Photo Album

Added something additional to website again. A photo album of some pictures of people and events. The link can be found by going through the pictures website. Might add some later on, I think I will need to scan them in if I do.

Who was the dope to pick the school's furniture!!

The furniture at this school is one of the most uncomfortable I have seen. Why would any school select uncomfortable furniture, is my question?

A comfortable furniture just makes more sense, I guess that would be the main reason for this furniture. This school's choices always comes down to cheap, stupidity.

My argument: The more comfortable a chair, bed or couch is the better the students will be in all aspects of their life.

A comfortable desk chair would help, allowing students to study, and write more while on the computer. I and most students can last about 3 hours max sitting in these backbreaking chairs. So I'm assuming that this school wants the students not to do well in their school work.

A comfortable living room chair and couch would help out in social settings. By having a more welcoming living room, we would allow students to be social for longer hours, and potentially give guest and sleep over guest a more positive view on the school. The couch is impossible to sleep on where there are 2 boards, one that hits the ribs, the other on the hips. The chairs are not comfortable either, the board in the back hits about under the shoulder blades, making most students have back problems after a couple of hours. It is hard to sit still for a movie when the chair is becoming very uncomfortable. So I'm assuming that this school wants the students to have no social life within their own suite, making the students crave for their bed.

The bed is comfortable enough to sleep in, but that's it. The beds here squeak every time you move, and are very small. The students here are afraid of falling off their bed. It is a XL single bed, about 7 feet by 2.5 feet. To roll over in the bed is impossible, the students have to basically rotate in one location hovering above the bed then laying back down. I'm guessing this school doesn't want the students to get enough sleep. This of course has a large impact on our school work, social life, and health.

I figure, hoping, that the school doesn't want this, but instead got the cheapest piece of crap furniture they can find. Sure it might look nice to potential students, but the real students know better.

You can go to the school's website at SUNYIT and can look all you want and never find a picture of the student's rooms might look like.

More Music

Added some more music to my radioblog. Mostly Classical Music, and some 60s, 70s music.

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Match Report: CSUF vs. San Diego III

My friend, Venkatesh Tatineni, in Pasadena, CA. I guess he is still playing cricket. By the looks of the report I guess very well. I hope I can get into shape and maybe play a little cricket when I get out there myself.

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