Patrick's Blog

I have found the following script useful for dealing with options in Matlab scripts.

I uploaded a graph cut MEX wrapper to the software section of this website.

I’m currently in Boston and will stay here till the end of the week. Next week, I’ll be attending the Snowbird Learning Workshop and AISTATS in Clearwater Beach, Florida. If you want to meet somewhere on the way, drop me a line!

I just released the first publicly available version of stroll, a library for structured output learning. stroll amongst other training algorithms also includes the spanning tree algorithms that I’ll be presenting in two weeks at AISTATS 09 in Clearwater, Florida. To learn more about the software, see the project page.

Today, I gave a small presentation to the first year students here at ETH to tell them why I personally think that learning about math in the first years is important. I decided to upload the slides, you can find them here; if this is helpful in order to get at least one person interested in calculus, algebra etc. than my goal is achieved! The slides are in German.

I’m nowadays working on three different machines and thus also send emails from all of them. The problem is that I did not find any way to sync my address book in Mozilla Thunderbird across the three workstations, so every now and then I had to be creative to find that one email address. Not anymore! Synckolab came to the rescue, so far this works painlessly and only needs an IMAP folder.

I today found the new blog of Radford Neal. While I have been reading some blogs in the machine learning /statistics community for some time, like for example Hal Daume’s blog or John Langford’s blog, I think Radford Neal’s blog has the potential of being a great alternative to these blogs for two reasons: he is a very senior person and he is more the stats guy, whereas most other blogs are probably on the machine learning side of things.

I’ll be at CVPR in Alaska next week. Looking forward to meet a bunch of people there that I haven’t met in a while.

I finally found some time to upload some of the more recent photos I took.

I use zenphoto as my gallery software and I find it a rather neat piece of code.

Update: Because of several issues I removed the gallery again. I guess after all it wasn’t such a great software.

Will spend Easter and the week thereafter in the Bay area and come back to Switzerland through San Diego and Las Vegas, where I will also spend some time.