A Particle Filter Haiku

Little dots go far
Tracking some noisy data
Thanks to you Bayes

It's been awhile

I'm sorry blog, I haven't posted in a while. I've been busy. I'll make it up to you with an anecdote.

Clear reminder that I'm in a Republican state, surrounded by Republican students:
In MFG 201 (History of Creativity) Dr. Strong makes mention of how the citizens of the Roman Empire asserted that they never fought an offensive war. He then said that the United States of America claims the same thing, I was the only person that laughed. Apparently every single one of the 100+ students in that room see our invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq as defensive; because they were "pre-emptive" actions they must be defensive wars. So under that reasoning the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II was a defensive war by the Japanese. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either Pearl Harbor and Iraq were offensive, or both were defensive, they can't be one and the other, it just doesn't make logical sense. Oh well, I think I may have heard one of those kids say "Baa-ram-ewe".

Plurals

So if the plural of louse is lice, shouldn't the plural of spouse be spice?

And we're beta

So I've just updated my blog to the new beta Google blogger. Nothing much has changed, except the ease of using this site. Enjoy!

Sick?

I think my week of death has caused me to become sick. I'm not particularly happy about it. ugh.

Head >= Water

This week has been killing me. I don't have time to be writing this right now, but I am anyways apparently. So, I hope you're all doing well.

I thought of a great sign to put up in an apartment where some people don't clean up after themselves: "You're not my dog, pick up your own sh**" (pardon my french).

And to address a previous comment: Lexi and I met and became good friends before she started writing for the Board, so it wasn't quite the 'Board inbreeding' we've been accused of :-P. The Board does happen to be a convenient way for intelligent people to meet other intelligent people though. At a recent gathering at Lavish's that involved a number of Board writers, I pondered the awesome intelligence of the group when we managed to go around the room (~12 people) and rattle of Shakespeare plays without repeating, and without anyone pausing to think. I thought that was pretty neat.

My Friday has been triple booked, and I don't know how to solve the schedule conflict. I have a Board Question-Answering party to attend, a Stake Dance, and a Cheer-Up Party for a Friend who's been a little down lately. I'll figure something out....

And, now I need to get back to my homework....

I'm happy

So I've been quite happy starting this weekend, something that hasn't happened on this scale for a while, a long while, and you'll find out why soon enough, but before that some other items of business.

So, I know my parents read my real-identity blog, which is strange, because I've never had to worry about it before, but now I feel like I have to do a measure of self-censoring on there, maybe not... hmm...

I hiked Mount Timpanogos at 1am on Saturday morning, it was kind of crazy, and I will never do it again. On the plus side though, my calves are really cut right now.

Sunday I had a picnic with my family, who were leaving town that day. So yes, we skipped General Conference, bought KFC, and headed up the canyon, that's just the kind of family I have.

Ok, Ok... so why am I happy?

Well, my curious little board readers, and fellow writers. I think you should know something. The amazing Lexi Khan and the Curious Physics Minor are now a couple.

So the moral of the story is, if you become a board writer, you can get girls.... wait, no, that's not the moral... hmm... ok, how about this: "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever." well.. maybe not that either... maybe it's simply this: "Sometimes the ups outnumber the downs", good thing this isn't Nottingham...