Kyle Matthew Oliver

Category: The Hacker Within

  • On the Marq, Finally

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    A while back, I lamented all the difficulties involved in establishing a paperless seminary workflow. Lots of people chime in, but in the end we didn’t locate an ideal way to do the main task: mark up PDFs (with highlighting, marginalia, etc.). During that process (though not on the comments–perhaps via Twitter?), someone told me…

  • The Ongoing Pursuit of a Paperless Seminary Reading Workflow

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    In seminary, we read a lot. Like, probably more than we do anything else–including playing intramural sports (a surprising but deeply rewarding time sink), praying (though we’ve received tremendous support in this respect), sleeping (at least it feels that way), and complaining (a necessary thing sometimes, let me tell you). And–as any humanities major knows…

  • More Funny Found Science

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    Man, colloquia abstracts are a seemingly endless source of buried jokes. Check out the grad student dig in the following summary of a talk on using machine learning to study human and animal learning: Machine learning studies the principles governing all learning systems. Human beings and animals are learning systems too, and can be explored…

  • THW on the Radio

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    A couple weeks back, The Hacker Within‘s fearless leader Milad Fatenejad and I did an interview with Matthew McCormick of Hacker Public Radio. I got notification today that it recently went live. Aside from having to suppress the occasional wince at my usual longwindedness, I had fun re-listening and think it turned out pretty well.…

  • Another Sweet Google Tool

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    Three events recently converged to respark my interest in a little mini-project I tried to do some time ago: (1) At yesterday’s Python subgroup meeting of The Hacker Within, our resident Pythonista got me all excited about developing easy web applications in that language. I write a lot of Python for pre- and post-processing of…

  • Another Bootcamp

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    For those interested in computing, The Hacker Within will be doing our second bootcamp of the semester in a few weeks. See below for details (flyer by Katy Huff, our talented Director of Creative Affairs):

  • The Difference Is Maintainability

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    So I write a lot of Python, and one of the claims promoters of the language usually make is that it helps you write more maintainable code. I think they’re right in that claim, and I think they’re right to stress the centrality of the issue. We’ve discovered over the years at St. Francis House…

  • Another Hacker Within Ad

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    I know this doesn’t make for a very exciting post number 100 here at CSC, but please help spread the word about this software carpentry training we’re doing the week before UW-Madison classes start. Join us if you can!

  • Hacker Within Meeting Friday

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    I doubt I have too many UW-Madison computer geek readers who don’t already know about this (if indeed I have any at all, which is also doubtful given my dire posting record of late), but on Friday at 2:15 in 414 Engineering Research Building, the Hacker Within computational science interest group that a few of…

  • Miscellaneous Updates

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    Let me surface from my digital dormancy (which one of these days I’ll get around to writing a post to explain) for a couple of quick updates. First, I went with some other UW-Madison folks to UW-Platteville Friday for a conference of the North Midwest region of the American Society for Engineering Education. We didn’t…