Turner falls, Devis

It was a beautiful sunny day in Norman of our spring break. I woke up early in the morning to take my friend to the hospital. It was little bit gloomy early in the morning but the sun started shining after ten or eleven. I did not feel like working so decided not to go the school and planning a short trip. Until three I tried my best to convince not to go anywhere because lipa's exam in knocking at the door. Finally I could not and call Adnan and Zafar! and we end up going Turner falls.

It is my second time in Turner falls but this time I was planning for taking lot of pictures! Well, I took a little bit and it was quite nice place, but I guess it is even better for camping not just a short trip. So we end up planning a camping in Turner falls sometimes in coming weeks.

A beautiful sunny day of our spring break!

I was going through National Geographic website today and realized probably I can add a little bit of story with each of my photo post! Why? Well I guess to make it more interesting. I don't think my pictures tell any story, I am not that good in photography yet! At least I am trying to be there. So until then I guess I have to add my story with my photo posts; that might make the entire thing a little more interesting.

Higher dimension!

I was trying to extend my outlier detection technique for higher dimensions. I kept the basic same and try to distinguish outliers in higher dimension. My original technique was based on nearest neighbor and I figure out my approach is not working for higher dimension very well :( I went deep into the program and trying to figure out 'why?' Eventually I realized the average density within certain radius is not very different than the average density of an outlier! In brief the distance is not a discriminative feature of an outlier!

I look into the dataset and it looks okay, then I look into the literature and found something equally interesting and horrifying :( nearest neighbor for higher dimension is not very meaningful; for high dimensional data the ratio of the distance to the nearest neighbor to the distance to the furthest neighbor is 1 and therefore the nearest neighbor based discrimination is not fruitful at all! The situation may improve if we change the distance metric from euclidean to manhattan but not full proof! The good thing about this result is all distance based outlier detection is use less for higher dimension but the bad things is mine is also use less! I have to look for something very different than nearest neighbor.

It is not very intuitive to visualize higher dimensional space and therefore is not easy to imagine the notion of outliers in higher dimension! I guess I need to figure out about what's work on higher dimension. That would not be a easy journey at all.

iOS 4.3

I updated my phone into iOS 4.3! Cool! interestingly there is nothing new for old devices! you can only find the new features (if any!!!) in new devices! Cool! I know Steve Jobs is a fanatic supporter of the idea hardware software decoupling does not work well; wow! even the new updates for same OS do not work for old devices!  Perfect! I wish I had the money to try reverse, I believe that would not work either. Apple does it all time! I wonder why apple does it every time, is it because apple is so stupid that it does not know how to make it decoupled! or what? I find it very irritating! Apple should make dump devices for dump people instead of smart devices. People want more diversity or customization from smart devices. 

New life

What's new in this new life? Definitely first thing is I have to constantly think about a second person. It is quite a difficult task for people like me who are mostly self centered. Most of the time I missed time to spend for myself. I always knew no matter whom I marry she is not gonna understand me; and it is true. Very few people understand me very well and certainly my is not one of them.

The One I Love

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love
Fire. Fire.
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love
Fire. (she's comin' down on her own, now)
Fire. (she's comin' down on her own, now)
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
Another prop has occupied my time
This one goes out to the one I love
Fire. (she's comin' down on her own, now)
Fire. (she's comin' down on her own, now)
Fire. (she's comin' down on her own, now)
Fire. (she's comin' down on her own, now)

[R.E.M]

Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules - Review

Authors - Rakesh Agrawal, Ramakrishnan Srikant
Summary - The paper presents two association rules mining algorithm for large datasets. Association rule mining is an interesting area of data mining which discovers the relations among the items in transactions. The new algorithms execute at least three times faster than existing algorithms. The first algorithm is called Apriori which incrementally build the large itemsets (an itemset is a set of items, the support of an itemset is calculated by the count the set appear in the database and a large itemset has support greater than minimum support) until no new bigger large itemset can be added, but this algorithm requires many passes over the database to discover all large itemsets. To tackle this problem this paper also presents another algorithm called AprioriTid, which does not require many passes over the database. AprioriTid stores the list of transactions that requires passing again to compute bigger large itemsets in the subsequent steps. However, the list of transactions that requires passing again may grow larger than the original size of the database which deteriorates the performance instead of improving it. This problem is severe for greater number of large itemsets but drastically disappear for smaller number of large itemset. Hence this paper proposes the use of a hybrid algorithm composed of Apriori and AprioriTid called AprioriHybrid. AprioriHybrid uses Apriori at the beginning when the number of large itemsets is high and switched to AprioriTid when the number of large itemsets became small. An empirical study confirms their claim at the end of the paper.
Further thoughts - (1) In order to obtain meaningful rules how does a user choose minimum support and minimum confidence? (2) Attribute data are fundamentally different from transactional data, how does the association rule mining work for attribute data?

Lyrics

Yesterday, I was planning start writing a short review of every paper I would read. Well I am hoping I would have a repository of review of papers at the end of the day. Keeping that in mind I came to my blog this morning I found I have posted almost seventy distinct lyrics! Wow, I know all those seventy songs were my favorite and I have a repository of my favorite songs! Is not it cool; I was pretty excited when I realized I have seventy lyrics. Every lyrics remind me a time, a time of struggle, a time of love or may be something else. This is what my blog is all about; it is keeping the past to share with the future. I know I would love my blog even more in coming days, I can feel I am becoming more lonely. :(

Anyway, I am gonna start writing short review about the papers I would read from now on; probably I should start putting all the reviews I have already and the new reviews would be added as  I read new papers. But my question is how I am gonna put the reviews? If it requires too much effort I am gonna stop that after while; so it has to be incredibly easy while effective. lets start it if it doesn't work then I'll stop it like I did for many things in this blog!

iPad

I was not very convinced when apple released iPad last year. I was not quite sure why would I use it? They released the second version this year and I am still not quite convinced about why would I use it? It looks like some people are gonna use apple product no matter what it is! Apple has a tremendously loyal customer base and it makes product for them!

Interesting enough, many people even try to copy iPad and now the market is full of this kind of tablet, funny huh! I would not be wondered if I buy one tomorrow and start thinking this is cool gadget! There is no doubt it is a cool gadget, but my point is what's for?

I did a little research today, I am amazed that Steve jobs is not the one who invented tablet pc, it is again Microsoft, Microsoft introduced tablet pc back in 2000, at that time it was not popular. It was more like other Microsoft product, a set of buttons and crappy look and so; the true difference from today's iPad is it was not neat! People did not like it at that time, the sad part about Microsoft they have 90% market share for operating system but zero fan where as apple got near 5% market share and even more fan! They are just fanatic, they don't care what apple is making, they know got to have one! I know apple products are beautiful for they are not the best! I personally find no reason to an apple product! Well I bought an iPhone but I would love to trade it for an android phone. The reason I bought an iPhone is it was the cheapest deal at that time, and I am still not in love with it. Certainly I am in love with smart phone but as long as other smart phone provide the same facility I am happy.

I am thinking it would be even more fun to use a android phone. I could make my own application. So there is no seamless interface for app building for iPhone apps in windows! Pity!

BlogSpace

Looks like I got an app for iPhone blogging. It passed my initial test, it has portrait and landscape mode and it can do tagging! Two most important feature I expect from blogger application.

I think it support picture and video for blogspot. That's cool, I think this is the best free blogging app for blogspot. I hope it is usable, in my experience most iPhone apps are not usable; they crash every so often. One more thing don't go back to see local draft while bloging, because it does not save every word you type.

I would say this is the best free blogging app, I don't know about the paid apps because I didn't use any of them. The only irritating part is ads; but that's okay, they have to earn money anyway.

The initial screen freezes very often and you have to tap more than once to something and the behavior is kind of random. At least it can save after putting in sleep.

Meeting today

I have a meeting with Dr. Gruenwald today, huh one more meeting, lots of promises, no results and so and so. I really don't like to meet with her. I am wondering what we would discuss? I tried to run the experiments and it is not completed yet. We are planning to submit a journal version paper. This paper would include our new experiments for multi dimensional data. I have been doing the same things for two semester now! That's pretty bad. I believe I can do better than what I am doing right now but somehow I am becoming demotivated day-by-day.

Okay, finally the meeting is over. I did not promise anything today but she asked me to do something. She is too good to me, I didn't present much today and still she did not tell me anything. I am wondering why? Either she starts trusting me or she has something in her mind. I personally prefer to go with the first one. Yes, she trusts me and that made me stay here after my MS. I know that was a wrong decision and I don't know how to fix it! I don't want a bitter end, I want a smooth transition but I now know I am scared of uncertainty and I am not going to stand it forever.

iPhone!

Fianlly I got the idea, blogspot doesn't have any app for iPhone but it does have for android. Never mind I ma learning working with web interface. It should b fine until I am planning to embeb picture.

Last few days I am trying to write an application for myself, apprently there is no easy way to write iPhone apps for Linux or windows and I don't have Mac machine :( This is something I really hate about Mac. Diversity is beauty and certainly Apple does not understand that.

New day

Ok, here is a new day. Today I wake up early, way not that early compared to week days, but yes it is early in the morning for Saturday. Lipa is preparing for GRE so we got to wake up early, then had our breakfast and now she is studying. And me, I am blogging. I am trying to be more connected with my blog than ever before. Why I am doing this? Partially this is because I feel like I am kind of detached from and my blog and most importantly, I need someone to share my life. Probably, it's bit difficult share your life with your wife, it's rather easier to share life with blog. Moreover, I got the mobile blogging thing which even more fun.

I believe blogspot should two kind of post, one is like blog and the second category should be very much like twitter; in that case I don't have to go to twitter and I can access it from here. But Google has Google Buzz but they connected Google Buzz with wrong thing, Gmail. Status update with email!!! Is it a kind of joke, I didn't like it, apparently not many people liked either. It was indeed a wrong step but they could do even better if they connected with blogspot. Because blogspot users like to share there life with the world not Gmail users, so in my view they targeted wrong kind of people.

I just finish the Apple's keynote for iPad 2. In my believe this time the big thing they did is made some really cool software to really make iPad popular. I already can see, people are using iPad; most likely they use it for fun nothing so professional and I believe the new apps add even more fun. I kind of live their Garage Band app. It seems really cool! I was kind of skeptical when the first iPad was lunched and still I am, but now I am kind of sure it is a fun box; then my question is how long it going to survive just as a fun gadget, or they have real plan to make it real professional. Let's see. I have already enough for today, good day.

Mobile blogging

I am kind of enjoying the mobile blogging thing. I can blog from anywhere. Right now I am in one of friends place and we are watching movie. I am just taking advantage of mobile blogging. We are watching Dhobi Ghat, a Hindi movie. I am becoming addicted to blogging. I bloged a lot before but this is different, I kind of addicted to short posts. Just quick ideas, mobile bloging is so much fun.

This movie Dhobi Ghat, seems pretty boring. May be I should stop blogging and concentrate on the movie, may be in this way I can grow some interest on the movie. I have tried, I have no idea what the hell this guy (our hero) is doing, the only thing I understand is he is trying to be tough and cool. This movie is too boring. One stupid woman popes up and she is really irritating me. I think we got one more hero here.

Parisa went to prepare tea for us, we really enjoy this Friday night gathering. I really like the director of this movie. I also like the idea of watching movie and blogging simultaneously. Actually mobile blogging is pretty cool, I think I would write a blog about my whole day. I really can put all my stupid ideas right here. I am pretty excited about it. I think this movie has some thing different. The video idea is very cool! I just realize the good thing about this movie is it does not have any music. Finally he movie is over, I think the director tried something different but it was not world class. Overall my rating is three out of five.

Now we started another movie, named eagle eye. Let's see what's going on in it. Looks like war movie not sure yet. We started this movie because we thought this is a Friday night movie, now it is getting serious. Please don't tell me it is a serious movie. Looks like a perfect Friday, all I need to do is shut may brain and stop thinking. We are having fun. Lot of things happening visually striking and logically incoherent, a perfect Friday movie. This movie is all fiction, no science. Happily ever after, us president rocks! It was good blogging and movie session, good bye.

Blogging

I spend entire day on my blog. Ha! I wish I could have anything better than that. Every day I feel like I hate my boss more than previous day. This job is becoming my pain in the ass. I am not gonna sacrifice my life just to be here, especially when being here does not mean anything to me. I need quit this job. I think end of this semester would be good time for quiting this job. Anyway, I am confident I am not gonna do it anymore.

I ma not gonna live forever, so there is no point of wasting time on things those I really don't like. If life is all about compromise then I don't want that fucking life. I wanna live as long as I love to live, I feel like living. Right now I don't feel like living and there is no point compromising my everything on nothing. It looks like I don't have any other alternative other than quiting this job, huh! I am sorry Dr. Gruenwald, I am really sorry, I wish I could make it.

New look

Apparently I spend the entire morning creating the new look for my blog. I was using the old look for last four years, so thought probably this is the time to get a new look for my blog. Most importantly, since this blog is no longer public, I have plenty of options for experiment. I just realize that the blogger now allow to adding more pages, so I believe I could add more pages and use it as my home page! Well, this blog is no longer public! Anyway, no problem, I would play with this blog quite a bit. One more thing, I have decided to use blogger in draft as my default settings, so now I can use all the cool features way ahead of release.

I kind of like the new design, certainly the new design allows me more customization but the only thing I didn't like is bottom notice. I wish if I could change the notice. I don't have problem referring them rather they deserve it but I didn't like the idea of having no control at all! This is nasty, I never expected anything like this from Google. Overall the new look is fun.

BlogWriter!

At last I found something for iPhone that can write on my blog! But this fucking stupid software does not capture the orientation and therefore I cannot have the horizontal keyboard layout! I think the developers are just stupid! Don't they think that horizontal keyboard is way more convenient for application like blogging. Huh! Looks like I need to write one, but I don't have Mac! I need find a way for iPhone application development for windows, hmm...

Finding wrong!

Now-a-days most of time passes thinking what was wrong! What was so terribly wrong that I got rejected from all universities I applied? May be I over estimated myself, sure that's one possibility. Then what is the right assessment for me? Am I worth trying again? Do I have any good inside me? How do I justify my position in front of my best friends! Now I know why I don't have any friend, because I don't know how to keep them close, how to be together! I never learnt that art. Am I that bad? How bad I am?

I messed anything and everything possible, now I am going to mess with the last thing I have. I am going to mess with my job. I am thinking quiting the job just to go beyond my comfortable zone. I know when I take a wrong decision it always follows by more, hopefully this is one among those more but I'll do it! I'll do just for the sake of doing it. I know my advisor would make my life hell but what's point of living if you never been challenged. This time I want the road I passed to be closed so that I cannot go back!

iPhone posting

I am wondering why can't I post using my iPhone. This is iPhone post and there is no good interface for using blogspot from iPhone. I think iPhone deserve one. At least it always with me and there for add more convenience for me if I can blog using my iPhone. What exactly I expect from iPhone app? A simple title box and text area probably work as a good start point, oh ofcourse a text box for the category of the post. a convenient way of embedding link and picture would be great! What else!

I think this would be enough as a good starting point, and like all other customer I would eventually realize what else I need for iPhone bloging. This post is written using the web interface from my iPhone. Write now I can see a small part of the text in my screen and it little bit annoying! We have so many useless apps but I don't have one I need. I am wondering does android have one for blogspot. Enough for now, from now on I'll try to be more frequent on my blog. Let's see how the entire thing coming out.

Someday you will miss today

http://stuffnoonetoldme.blogspot.com/2011/02/65.html

I wanna be free

All my life; I've followed signs; On many a road
Tried to find; What was right; And do what I'm told
But sometimes; You cross the line; And never can go back home

I've been here; And I've been there; Always on the go
Looking for; Something more; To call my own
Up to now; I have found; That life as a whole was cold
'Cause I've never belonged

[I wanna be free; And live without warning; 

I wanna finally see; What it's like on the other side
I wanna be free; 'Cause a new day is dawning
I wanna be me; I wanna show the world I'm alive]

Who's to say; I need change; And I am not what I'm not
Look at me; And what you see; Has been through alot
Now it's time; For me to find; What love's really all about
And all that I've lived without

[I wanna be free; And live without warning
I wanna finally see; What it's like on the other side.
I wanna be free; 'Cause a new day is dawning
I wanna be me; I wanna show the world I'm alive.]

[I wanna be free; And live without warning
I wanna finally see; What it's like on the other side.]

[I wanna be free; And live without warning
I wanna finally see; What it's like on the other side.
I wanna be free; 'Cause a new day is dawning
I wanna be me; I wanna show the world I'm alive.]

[I wanna be free; And live without warning
I wanna finally see; What it's like on the other side.
I wanna be free; 'Cause a new day is dawning
I wanna be me; I wanna show the world I'm alive.]

[I wanna be free; And live without warning
I wanna finally see; What it's like on the other side.
I wanna be free; Cause a new day is dawning
I wanna be me; I wanna show the world I'm alive.]

[Marc Anthony][Youtube]

Going private?

When I started this blog I had one thing in my mind, me! I was the only writer and probably I was the only reader as well. At that time I wrote for me and I knew for sure I can write anything because no one is going to read it. Over time I grew some popularity and I was dragged from my motivation. I started realizing I am not the only reader and I started writing for others! In my view this no longer fun this is business! Although, I didn't monetize this blog but that because I knew I would not earn much from this blog. But I deceive my self saying this is for fun not for money, I know these are all crap, I am a hypocrite.

Anyway, I started writing for my audience and becoming less frequent in my blog. Now before writing anything I at least once think about my audience. Probably this is wrong, this is all wrong, why should I worry about others when I started this thing for myself! Even worse is I filter out many idea just because the readers may not like it! This is not what I want! This is all wrong!

I just realized writing for myself way more fun than writing for others. I am not one of those who believe there is no point of writing if no one reads it. I believe it is even more fun to write for thyself. From now on I would try to write for myself only and forget about the audience. Probably I should change the permission from public to private so that I know for sure no one is reading it and I can write for myself. For the time being I would turn off the comments, so that no one can leave a comment and I can ignore the audience; if it doesn't work I would make it a private blog.