Get Me Out of Hillcrest

I've known ever since I moved here three years ago that one day I'd get the hell out of this neighborhood. I came here by mistake, and I leave by fortune.

What I like about Hillcrest

I can walk anywhere I want
Lalo's Tacos
Bronx Pizza
My bank has a branch nearby

What I dislike about Hillcrest

I'm heterosexual
It's expensive as f*ck
There's too much frigging construction
I can never find a parking space

So finally, the fabled "right time" came to pass. Yes, even for a middle-class guy like myself, it finally happened. I'm getting the hell out of here and moving to a neighborhood no one's ever heard of.

Escrow closes in about three weeks. Wish me luck.

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Homebrew Progress - Day 2

Here's a video I made of the homebrew today. Enjoy!

Boston Housing Dataset Missing From UC Irvine's Site

I'm putting together a series of blog posts on Python for R programmers, and I figured I'd use the Boston dataset of Boston housing prices. It's a pretty well-known dataset for regression, and it's included in R in the MASS package and in Python in sklearn.datasets . I know the data originally came from UCI, so I wanted to give credit where credit was due. When I clicked the first few Google links that appeared, I got this message on the UCI site: I'm sorry, the dataset "housing" does not appear to exist. Weird that they're not linked at all, but I found these links. Here's the link to the dataset in their archive. Here's the link to the data dictionary. Enjoy!

I'm Just Here for the Carnage - RoboGames 2007

So here I am in San Francisco, right on the water at Fort Mason for one of the "top geek events" in the U.S. (as proclaimed by Wired magazine). Let me tell you, if you've never had a cocktail mixed by a robot, you haven't lived. Last night, some dudes brought in a serious robot - a biotech machine - that allowed them to make perfectly-layered B-52 shots. Each layer was measured out in picalitres. Today, Roboexotica's Cockbot 1 is mixing and serving daquiris, Campari/oranges, and screwdrivers. This is actually Cockbot 1. I can't wait for tonight, when a flamethrowing 151 and Kahlua bot will be shooting a yard's worth of fire to ignite highly-flammible liquor. Stay tuned...

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