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25 March 2007 @ 07:43 PM MST

Current Music: Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - 1st Movement
Current Mood: Decent

Yesterday was the Rex Lee Run. Josh and I participated in the 5k run. Josh's target time was under 22 minutes, mine was under 24 minutes. Nicely enough we both met our goals (Josh's Results My Results). It was a hard run, but we both enjoyed it as a nice culmination of the almost daily running we've been doing all semester. After the race I went home and ate two huge Egg/Cheese/Bacon/Bagel sandwiches, and watched an episode of 24. Then I realized I had no clean clothes to change into, so I did laundry. Then Courtney came over and we walked over to the Botany pond and watched the ducks and took a nap on the grass.

That evening a bunch of us went to the Hindu Krishna temple in Spanish Fork for the Festival of Colors. This is the event where they light a bonfire and burn a witch thing. Then as the witch burns you throw colored chalk at each other (which is sold to you for $1 a bag). There was probably upwards of 1000 people there, it was neat.

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21 March 2007 @ 01:13 PM MST

Current Music: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Current Mood: Tired

So I have a couple of research ideas. And I have a meeting with one of my professors tomorrow to talk about them, and see if we could get either of them to be big enough and worthy enough of being a Master's Thesis.

One involves obtaining a whole bunch of data to try and find some correlation between input data, neural network design, and the number of hidden nodes needed in a Back Propagation algorithm to provide optimal results.

The other is an extension of Heather Chan's work, which I learned about at the Spring Research Conference. It involves using Frequency analysis to do song identification. I figure I could expand this to include volume analysis, song speed, beat detection... and do Genre classification or artist identification, or possibly song identification as well. My current adviser suggested possibly do song prediction, attempting to learn what the next sound would be in a song, that could be interesting as well.

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16 March 2007 @ 03:33 PM MST

Current Music: Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Current Mood: Doing well

Yesterday was a good day. I got up and went to class, CS478 (Machine Learning) was particularly humorous for some reason. Then I went and bought tickets for Guitars Unplugged on Saturday and tickets for the Utah State Symphony last night. I went up to work and made some good things happen in my code.

After work Courtney came over and we went to Smith's and bought food. Went back to my apartment and barbecued some steak and had that with corn, mashed potatoes, and baked beans. Then we got dressed up and headed off to the Symphony. They played two pieces by Sibelius a Finnish composer, and a Violin Concerto by a different composer (name began with an 'H' and had a 'z' in it, but I don't remember the whole thing). It was most excellent. Really good music. After the final piece a company was sponsoring an after-party in the lobby. The food was SO good. I had a little sandwich and some kind of a falafel type thing as well as a mini cheesecake, corn chips and dip, punch, and chocolate covered strawberries. mmm....

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13 March 2007 @ 05:39 PM MST

Current Music: Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 in E Minor
Current Mood: Pretty well

So I got this in the mail today:

Without my knowledge I apparently got married, and had a baby or grandbaby... I'm not entirely sure on the specifics of how I'd have a grandchild.... oh well.

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11 March 2007 @ 03:33 AM MST

Current Music: Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Current Mood: Tired

So, I really should be asleep, but I've been spending the last few hours digitizing my exciting new music purchases.

I had a session of stake conference this evening at the Provo Tabernacle. After which Josh picked up Courtney and me and we went to his place for a bit. Brady was antsy and wanted a trip to Walmart, so we went. I remembered that I had wanted something from Walmart and remembered that it was that Classical/Romantic period music could be purchased for cheap. We've just finished the Classical and Romantic periods in History of Creativity and I really, really like the Romantic period music and I also like a lot of the Classical stuff. I already knew this, but didn't know the specific periods, or the specific composers that I liked most. Now I generally do. I love Mozart and Beethoven's later works. I think Bach is pretty good too, and then there are a myriad of others that have some good stuff: Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Strauss (son), Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Chopin, Haydn, Wagner, The Handful.... Anyways, I picked up 3-disc sets each of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart for $6 each. I also picked up 2 2-disc compilations of Classical/Romantic era music for $6 each. I could listen to it for a long time to come...

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5 March 2007 @ 07:34 PM MST

Current Music: Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
Current Mood: Tired, stressed, but not too bad