Attended a presentation by Thomas G. Dietterich on Machine Learning in Ecological Science and Environmental Management.

After a few e-mails back and forth, I gained access to the NCSU’s ARC Cluster. The hardware consists of 1728 cores on 108 compute nodes integrated by Advanced HPC. I’m particularly interested in finally having a real environment in which to experiment with NVIDIA CUDA.

Access to the cluster is firewalled; you can first SSH into a public-facing NCSU server, but I’ve found it easiest to use NCSU’s Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client. If you’re using Windows, you can use the PuTTY Key Generator to quickly create a SSH-2 DSA public/private key pair.

I’m signed up to attend this year’s Carolina Games Summit, hosted annually at Wayne Community College. If all goes to plan, I’ll also be presenting a talk at the same event on implementing game AI using Pygame.

I’ve been approved for in-state tuition rates at North Carolina State University starting this semester.

The review of your application and supporting documentation has been completed. I am pleased to advise that you have been reclassified as in-state for tuition purposes effective Spring 2012 semester.

At least something was accomplished this week.

I finally ditched Delicious and migrated my bookmarks to Pinboard.in. There was an initial hiccup with the confirmation e-mail due to what appears to be some mail server related issues, but it was eventually resolved through IRC.

I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress 3.3.1. In doing so, I also changed the theme to Twenty Eleven, since the prior theme has not been maintained by the original author for a long time.

While doing the upgrade, I went ahead and installed the Quick Cache plugin.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.

I installed Weka 3, with the first hiccup being an OutOfMemoryException.

I released the final project for Database Applications. For the students, it’s the last assignment of the semester.