Grrr... (Richardson Extrapolation)

Many times, when banging my ahead against on what has to be a really simple problem, I waste a lot of time over-engineering my debugging tools. Behold: richardson.m

(But then, years later, some of this crap comes up in conversation and the tool is already polished enough to hand it to someone else. At least this is what I tell myself...)

le semaine prochaine avec mes parents

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Master's degree and a third patent grant

Nice week all in all. I finished an M.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics which has been four semesters in the making.

Longer than that in process, though markedly less work, was getting my third patent grant US 7,532,617:

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for a session initiation protocol application design, development, execution, and integration. A framework with a framework controller, an application data object, transition handlers, precondition handlers and post condition handlers is provided. When a message is received in a SIP application, the framework controller determines a state of application and parses the message to update application data by using corresponding handlers. The handlers for each state are specified in an input markup language model defined by a user externally via a Web service accessible component.

Relatively recently...

• ...Michelle had some ankle surgery. She's doing well.
• ...I saw rms speak on U.T.'s campus about copyright law, where, among other things, he made the case that IP is an overgeneralization. Still digesting that.
• ...Michelle and I watched Cashback (excellent, too much skin though) and Special (excellent).
• ...I failed miserably at getting a simple, 1-D version of Durbin's V2F model working on a turbulent channel flow.
• ...despite it always being an obvious first choice, I keep forgetting to try to use geometric Brownian motion in my probability theory homework.
• ...I quit letting scope creep into the reading list for my turbulence term paper.
• ...I realized just how hard it is to achieve meaningful functional and system verification testing work, even when you as a tester understand the application and the underlying technology fairly well.