{"id":72,"date":"2015-04-30T01:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T08:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-06-18T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:24:18","slug":"chronicles-2015-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/chronicles-2015-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2015 Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chronicles #2! This is way late! Ahh!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made a paper submission to ICWSM and a poster submission to Creativity &amp; Cognition this year. Fingers crossed.<\/li>\n<li>I started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/ml\">Machine Learning<\/a> course on Coursera. I actually really like it so far &#8212; it&#8217;s very practical in that it&#8217;s programming-oriented rather than theory-oriented, which made it a good fit for me. Now I&#8217;m no longer embarrassed about not knowing\u00a0what people are talking about when words like\u00a0<em>features<\/em> and\u00a0<em>examples<\/em> come up.<\/li>\n<li>Since I&#8217;ve finished most of my PhD requirements, I&#8217;m able to submit a petition to get my Master&#8217;s degree. So I did that. And I got it! Somewhat anticlimatically, I now have a Master&#8217;s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.<\/li>\n<li>I started mentoring some undergraduates who want to get some research experience, and I decided to participate in Stanford&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/curis.stanford.edu\/\">CURIS<\/a> program this summer. I find myself swinging back and forth between handing over too much and too little responsibility&#8230; hopefully I can figure out a good balance soon.<\/li>\n<li>I volunteered during our department&#8217;s PhD Admit Weekend! I had a lot of fun meeting all the potentially new students and leading them around downtown Palo Alto for various desserts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I tabled at an Artist Alley for the first time at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aodsf.org\/\">AOD 2015<\/a> in San Francisco! It was an amazing experience, and I wrote up a <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/110452410527\/how-to-prepare-for-your-first-artist-alley\">step-by-step reflection<\/a> on my Tumblr which fellow artists seem to be finding useful, so yay!<\/li>\n<li>Gave my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/\">DeviantArt page<\/a> a bit of a makeover, with a slightly new design and a new ID.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Shaoran-Sakura-512358494\">Drew<\/a> way more. <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Welcome-to-the-Pokemon-Cat-Cafe-516004209\">A<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Cat-and-Catgirl-513401571\">LOT<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/We-can-meet-again-518701827\">MORE<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Some stats for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/\">Herogirl<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li>10,934 users made 77,327 pageviews for this quarter<\/li>\n<li>People are viewing about 5 pages in 2 &#8211; 3 minutes per visit session<\/li>\n<li>Bounce rate is 72% overall, and slightly lower for new visitors<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2015\/01\/13\/adulthood\/\">This comic<\/a>\u00a0was the most viewed comic, and\u00a0grabbed a lot of visitors from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pokemon\">\/r\/pokemon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made an effort to read a little each day.\n<ul>\n<li>I finished reading\u00a0<em>Surely You&#8217;re Joking, Mr. Feynman<\/em>! Really interesting to read as a researcher &#8212; Feynman is\u00a0very honest about his struggles with his work and the people he worked with. My big takeaway: follow your interests, and be reflective about what works and what doesn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s easier to not get stuck that way! Also, concentrate on <em>process<\/em> and <em>integrity<\/em> rather than how much of a bigwig\u00a0someone is or the results that you get. It&#8217;s about <em>how<\/em> you do things and whether you feel like you&#8217;re doing the right thing for you.\u00a0Don&#8217;t be afraid to drop stuff you don&#8217;t want.<\/li>\n<li>I also finished\u00a0<em>The PhD Grind<\/em>. I wish I could say I had similar profound thoughts, but I didn&#8217;t. It really is just a description of someone&#8217;s experience through grad school without too much connections to other parts of life, but the author\u00a0also makes it clear he wasn&#8217;t attempting the memoir to be more than that. As a fourth-year grad student now, I felt like I knew how things were going to go, but at the same time, I felt that I probably would not have understood the memoir fully if I had read it any earlier. Not sure when a good time to read it is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some anime I finished:\u00a0Nagi no Asakura (frustrating but a very cool setting), Yuki Yuna is a Hero (meh),\u00a0Your Lie in April (super meh), Aldnoah Zero (awesome), I Can&#8217;t Understand What My Husband is Saying (hilarious and cute).<\/li>\n<li>I kind of went on a Zelda marathon. I finished A Link to the Past after like a million decades, then played A Link Between Worlds (super fun, and Ravio is a great character!) I then played through Link&#8217;s Awakening (surprisingly amazing, possibly now my second favorite Zelda under Windwaker!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Chronicles #2! This is way late! Ahh! &nbsp; Academic Made a paper submission to ICWSM and a poster submission to Creativity &amp; Cognition this year. Fingers crossed. I started the Machine Learning course on Coursera. I actually really like it so far &#8212; it&#8217;s very practical in that it&#8217;s programming-oriented rather than theory-oriented, which made&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/chronicles-2015-winter\/\"> <strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","tag-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}