personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
Mar 21st 2005nerd alert
My advisor emailed me late last night about a statistics lecture one of our brand-new collaborators was giving today. He had to leave early today, so guess who got to go instead? It was actually a lot better than I’d feared — it was indeed a non-technical survey of “non-linear dimensionality reduction by manifold embedding”, [...]
May 19th 2004nerd alert
Sitting here waiting for the mounting resin to cure for another experiment gives me time to ponder. This is the first
May 14th 2004General & nerd alert
Saw a deer on the way home from work today. I was walking along through the engineering campus, which still lots of nice woodsy areas, and there was a youngish-looking white-tailed deer by the side of the road. He (?) let me get to within about 25 paces before he sort of strolled off into the woods. Sometimes I really really like this town.