Eric versus the Arc de Triomphe, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. A full report will have to wait until I have more time and internets, but hey, yeah, I made it through Europe unscathed except for a couple of nasty blisters. I enjoyed bobo Paris more than a snarky small-town Canadian really should, Madrid…
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Page, count!
thesis page count, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Holy crap. It’s 2:13AM on a Friday night, I’ve got Mogwai playing on the stereo, and I think I might actually kind of be done writing my thesis. I feel… odd. (Well, done until Nando and my committee read it and tell me to go revise…
[Brochu, Brochu and de Freitas, 2010]
I’m a little late in posting this, but I managed to get accepted to the 2010 Symposium on Computer Animation with my paper, “A Bayesian Interactive Optimization Approach to Procedural Animation Design”! I’ve added the pre-print PDF to my publications page, and there’s even a video, which explains the whole thing in under five minutes…
Eric versus Eric’s brain
Broadcast at the Biltmore, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. It’s been a beautiful fall weekend here in Van, but I’ve mostly been home with an annoying rhinovirus. However, I did get out to see Broadcast at the Biltmore, and being stuck on the sofa in a Neo Citran haze has been a good excuse…
a return
phantasy of phinishng a phd, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. So for those keeping track at home, I took leave of my position at Worio last month to go back to work on my PhD full-time. I’d been either a non-student or part-time for the last two years, which seemed kind of incredible to…