This week things
were rather crazy. I felt as though I was forever jumping out
of my chair to go do something. Everyone was pretty much away
until Thursday, so Nataliya and I had the lab almost to ourselves.
In fact, this week was so crazy that I hardly remember anything
but the last two or three days.
Things that
I can remember, however, include fixing the positioning of the
cluster centers to be the mean of the nodes connected to them..and
this was surprisingly easy. I guess at this point, I just expect
everything to be hard. But that was out of the way. I was working
on some stubborn problems such as getting the data the "right"
way as opposed to the past method of grabbing it by name. But
we're reading it in correctly now. I was also having issues with
categorical data, but I think that that's fixed for now.
Eric showed
me briefly what Weka can do, and I think that I'll work on that
tonight and tomorrow. It seems awesome! I had my doubts when Marie
told us that we could implement MCP-Kmeans in an afternoon, but
now it seems possible. I'm looking forward to this, because it
could be a great tool for future work (especially in the AI class
upcoming Fall '06).
In Other News:
I think that this makes up for last week. I basically got fed
up with the roaches, the smoke detector and the general handling
of the apartment, so when on Tuesday when Residential Life actually
called me back to fix an appointment and said that the soonest
they could see me would be next Friday, I went to the Vice President
of student affairs.
Things are
finally getting fixed; they replaced my smoke detector and sprayed
for bugs (the smoke detector still went off and the bugs still
came, but they tried). The night that I found a roach on my bath
towel, I gave up on my room and moved my sheets to the room far
away from the light outside. I'm having a walk-through of the
apartment on Monday, and hopefully that'll take care of things
once and for all. If not, you'll hear about it in my next log!
