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I've spent the night practicing Erlang by solving as problems from the Project Euler problem set. Learning to parse a new syntax is incredibly fun, especially one as initially strange as Erlang's. Below follows what I can only imagine to be an incredibly inefficient solution to problem 50.

Erlang, Project Euler and Gists!

This week I borrowed a copy of Ben Fry's book on the Processing visualization library. The first chapter in the book with code works through an example where you plot a point on the center of each state in the United States. I found some data on the average rainfall per state in the United States from 1961-1990 and decided to expand on this example.

Average Monthly Rainfall by State from John Novatnack on Vimeo.

I successfully defended my master's thesis titled Scale-Dependent/Invariant Local 3D Geometric Features and Shape Descriptors. It was a day I have been looking forward to for awhile and I am proud and happy with the final product of my research. Thanks to everyone for coming!

I am happy to say a paper titled A Generalized Family of Fixed-Radius Distribution-Based Distance Measures for Content-Based fMRI Image Retrieval will be published in an upcoming edition of Pattern Recognition Letters. I am a co-author of the paper along with a number of colleagues at Drexel University, the University of Toronto and Rutgers University (Nicu Cornea, Ali Shokoufandeh,

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