quoting Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia:

My inner little girl is happy. This is the MLP toy I had when I was 2-3. We were kinda poor, so I just had this gal, a few transformers and some legos at the time. I lost her on the plane either going to or coming from Hawai'i when we'd moved there. But now I have her again :')

Losing favorite toys was probably the worst part of childhood I still hope that one day I can be reunited with the two stuffed seals I lost.

I've been so busy. Mixed bag I guess. It's finally really spring here. I just can't seem to help being kind of eternally low-energy and a bit melancholic.

I'm seeing my endocrinologist in a week, for the first time in 6 months, and I can release the next version of the SCA as soon as I update the documentation, and I've made some progress on my real research, which is occasionally exciting.

Best of all, I might get $7000 from a CD i forgot I had and was turned over to the government as abandoned. So that would be nice.

quoting Morrígan, Marquise:

Best of all, I might get $7000 from a CD i forgot I had and was turned over to the government as abandoned. So that would be nice.

That must have been an important CD, if the government is willing to pay $7000 to recover it? I mean, that sum is probably peanuts for them, but still.

Ah, in this case CD as in a long-term interest bearing account. It's my money to begin with. Apparently if you don't do anything with the bank for 5 years, they will think you might be dead and are required by law to report the money as abandoned.

It's boring though, I'm just gonna throw this at my debt. I have to find something nice I want to buy...

I see. I've never encountered that abbreviation in a financial context, so I was honestly thinking of a Compact Disc, not of a Certificate of Deposit. ?

Yep, I thought of a compact disc too.

By the way, is that a transparent emoticon?

It is, eh, "emoji". Because I wrote that on my phone. And it's easier to put emoticons that way than the classic punctuation symbols.

Ah, an emoji. Yes, that makes sense because I've previously seen that change from mobile to PC.

ABD!!! ABD!!!

Care to deacronymize that?

quoting kodé, Deacon, this fucking hole we call LA:

ABD!!! ABD!!!

quoting Jipí, Alkali Metal, Marburg, Germany:

Care to deacronymize that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_but_dissertation

kodé is on a path to his PhD.

quoting kodé, Deacon, this fucking hole we call LA:

ABD!!! ABD!!!

That's fantastic, congratulations. A bunch of my friends just defended, and a few more are trying to be ABD by the end of the summer. Almost makes me miss school.

Congrats in this case

Thanks, guys! Morrigan, that "almost" is really important...

Aww, jeez, you have to remind me of that thing, huh. Blargh!

But seriously: congrats!

A bunch of my friends just got their PhDs. ;_;

My research is coming along though. Bit by bit. And i'm working on the SCA manual and examples writing a manual is a lot of work.

hello i'm a bachelor's student

I worked SO much this weekend, it was great. I made a test-standard data set for Ingush-Chechen-Batsbi, did a lot of refactoring and modularization of my alignment code, as well as setting up the Jenetics library so I can use genetic algorithms to tune my model parameters.

The results so far are fantastic but i have a lot of work still ahead. One rather interesting result so far is using a gap penalty (at least, a constant one) is actually bad:



Admittedly, I have not yet tried this with my Indo-Iranian data. I had been using a penalty of 6, which actually was a very bad choice.

ggplot for life!

wait what
what indo-aryan things are you doing bioinformatics to