7:00 – 3:00 ASRC

• Fixing slides
  • Add breadcrumbs in the lower border throughout
  • Move LMN slide to bridge lit review and current work
  • Overview Lit review slide that sets section titles with codes
  • Add timeline that starts back at the initial politifact paper
• Moving content for Vinny
• Starting on the lazy loading for the research browser
• Need to move the settings out of the search page to the setting page and get them
• TensorFlow seminar
  • @martin_wicke
  • TF is tooling to manage complexity
  • TF can run any algorithm addition -> Bayes -> deep neural nets -> etc
  • Multiple chained Neural Networks (NN)
  • Data center scale systems
  • Flow graph is written in Python and then compiled
  • State is maintained in nodes
  • First build the graph, then run it.
  • TensorBoard (visualization)
  • relu
  • TensorFlow uses CUDA8, so NVidia
  • TensorFlow runs on Linux (Ubuntu), MacOS, Windows coming soon (a week or 2) that will support GPUs
  • Tensorflow installed with pip?
  • Placeholders are like variables that require data from the user or TF doesn’t work.
  • Pre trained models exist. There is a tutorial that gives quick results that is used a pre-trained model
  • Performance tracing is available by use of flags. Run times and communication times

6:30 – 6:00 ASRC

• IS Distinguished Speaker Dr. Margaret Burnett
  • Information foraging theory – Peter Pirolli biologically inspired mathematical models. Predator model?
  • Ignorance leads to unwitting barriers
  • Barrier level, not system level for design
  • GenderMag The goal is problem solving, not browsing. This is another behavioral marker? Depth-first vs. breadth first vs all first
    • Personas
      • Motivations
      • Information Processing Style
      • Computer self-efficacy
      • Risk averseness (confirm/avoid???)
      • Technology learning style (tinkering vs. tinkering pausfully – behavioral cue??)
• TensorFlow lecture at noon. Video link. Nope – tomorrow.
• Adding some code that will hide common prefixes in documents – done
• Extremely Fast Text Feature Extraction for Classification and Indexing
• Machine learning meeting. We’re going to start with a deployable, scalable simple junk filter.
• Long discussion with Aaron about priorities and search spaces.
• Fixing slides
  • Add breadcrumbs in the lower border throughout
  • Add overview slide
  • Tie back to diversity of thought vs monolithic thought
  • Move LMN slide to bridge lit review and current work
  • Overview Lit review slide that sets section titles with codes
    • Motivations – setting the stage
  • Rework domain independence slide. Maybe we’re not proving, but disproving the negative?
  • Add timeline that starts back at the initial politifact paper

7:00 – 6:00 ASRC

• More slides. Gonna have to edit…
• Finish slides today and walkthrough
• Extract and ingest the chapters of the proposal.
• Presented! 31 minutes
  • Add breadcrumbs in the lower border throughout
  • Add overview slide
  • Move LMN slide to bridge lit review and current work
  • Overview Lit review slide that sets section titles with codes
    • Motivations – setting the stage
  • Rework domain independence slide. Maybe we’re not proving, but disproving the negative?
  • Add timeline that starts back at the initial politifact paper

7:00 – 5:00 + 2 hours on Sunday ASRC

• Slides all day, but keeping the work email open
• Measuring online social bubbles
• Map reduce topic maps as actual maps? http://kill.devc.at/index.html
• Swarm intelligence: concepts, models and applications
• A modeling approach to swarming in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

Phil 7:00 – 4:00 ASRC

• Send out a note to the committee – done
• Notified Barb about my proposal
• See what the doodle results are by the end of the day
• More slides
• Found my paper for Simon’s ant – Learning motion patterns in unstructured scene based on latent structural information
• And there’s this, too: A Study of Factuality, Objectivity and Relevance: Three Desiderata in Large-Scale Information Retrieval? Need to look at their lit review..
• Added in quotes for phrases and a checkbox to make them optional

7:00 – 6:00 ASRC

• Word Vector analysis on 18th century lit. Very interesting: http://ryanheuser.org/word-vectors-4/
• More slides
• Starting on switching out the combobox to a custom component. Using this tutorial
• Components work
• Adding tabs. It works, but the second
• Meeting with Wayne. I should time slides for a 30 minute talk
  • Follow up with Barbara and get a room nailed down
  • Also met with Shimei – I’ll send out a note to the rest of the committee asking if there are any items that they want me to clarify in the talk from their reading of the proposal
  • Created a doodle for the walkthrough
• More reading The Last Place on Earth. Amundson was literally raised into arctic exploration techniques. His explorer framing is different from Scott’s? We’ll find out.

Phil 7:00 – 5:00  ASRC

• Heard about LoRa on the radio this morning. This might be the bike box tracker technology I’m looking for. Not sure if the networks are active at airports though.
• More slides. Putting questions that don’t seem to fit anywhere else at the back
• Finished first pass through motivations. Started on Lit Review and a bit of Current Work.
• Work on Google CSE integration in the Research Browser today? Then lazy loading of the pages behind the listing.
• Getting the search results using the ONLY_COM engine for now (TODO: Add more engines later)
• Working on taking the items and making them data/graphics objects that can be included in a list. Going to start with a combobox to get the mechanics working right and then walk back from that.
• Combobox list works! There is only one combobox that is assigned to the selected cell, so the list has to be repopulated on selection. Otherwise it’s all straightforward.
• Started reading The Last Place on Earth.

7:00 – 4:00 ASRC

• Started on the slides
• Installing the Ubuntu extension on my personal laptop as per this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/enable-bash-windows-10-anniversary-update
• Fixing the .arff string variable save for CorpusManager – fixed. The trimmed matrices just didn’t have the string Maps
• Interview with Julia – making an offer
• Meeting with Wayne. Nope he’s traveling. But Sy made a nice presentation and will take a good look at my slides once they’re done.
• Need to doodle a slot for the week of the 17th.
• Got my antarctica books. Need to do a bit of reading.
• Walked David through my thoughts. That helped a lot!

8:30 – 6:30 ASRC

• For watching the weather: http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx
• Submit aperworrk for ACM and ICA reimbursement
• Working on the research browser
• Machine learning meeting
  • Confusion about the difference between our googlehacking and ML
• Broke the arff string value part. It’s working on xlsx, so I need to chase that down.

8:30 – 6:30 ASRC

• Set up Flu shot and physical!
• This is the source for The Crowd: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/445
• Add radio buttons for news and scholar search
  • Scholar is done
  • News is done.
  • Why does rank disappear when a term is deleted?
• Test moby dick without query or exact terms – fixed.
• Sprint review

9:00 – 5:00 ASRC

• Slept in until 6:30 today!
• Fixing the bibliography
  • Verify: Le Bon, G. (2009). The crowd: A study of the popular mind. Auckland, N.Z.: Floating Press.
• Going to see what stories are waiting for me, otherwise I’ll start on Aaron’s upgrades.
• Renamed LitReviewTest2 to LanguageModelGui.
• Added search.
• Pondering how to show relations between text and terms

6:45 – 9:15 ASRC

• Link to Barbara
• Proofreading and bibliography
  • Last name, First initial, (Year). Article title. Publication/Publisher. Page-page
  • APA inline format from EasyBib
  • Using CiteFast. Made an account for my umbc persona
• Still need to number figures and tables, print to PDF and distribute.
• Done! Going to go back and fix sentence case tomorrow.

7:00 – 5:00 ASRC

• Reworking browser mockup. Rather than using the ‘Trustworthy’ ranking, I thought I’d go more functional and exploration-supporting. Clicking on the Antibubble annotation for a story would show the context for the ‘trustworthy’ context. Clicking on the Bubble annotation would show the ech0-chamber context. The criteria for ranking documents could be selected by combobox.

• Implications for design section
• Aaron’s presentation
  • Managing Ambiguity in Legal Requirements
  • Ambiguity as a tool of understanding issues?
  • In law, building in ambiguity to extend law lifetime. But shut specific loopholes
  • Sounds a lot like compiler design
  • Code clusters for paragraphs
• 4:00 Meeting with Wayne
  • Inline citations
  • APA format
  • Print to pdf and offer hard copy in the distribution.

6:00pm – 9:00 ASRC

• Mocking up browser

7:00 – 4:00 ASRC

• Got rid of the the old fgmdev blog name since I’ve had five company changes since then.
• Had a good talk with Aaron
  • Delete ‘very’ from proposal
  • Make sure that since and because are used properly
  • Add some work to the lit review that describes the adjacency of the terms used in the lit review and how they connect.
    • Just tried it and the results are interesting, but I’m not sure that I’ll be able to fold them in by Tuesday. Send Aaron a note later today about that.