Patrick's Blog

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.

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.

I changed the blog design to something that looks very similar to the other parts of my webpage.

While the WordPress theme code is not as ugly as I initially thought, I would still consider it as horrible code and I think software like wordpress would greatly profit from a switch to the beloved smarty template engine.

I hope this is my last website related post for 2008.

I just finished uploading a new version of my website. It’s tailored towards my new role as a PhD student at ETH Zurich. I started this position already back in September, but only now found the time and motivation to write about it.

I hope everything works as expected with the new website.

I’m currently playing around with RoundCube Webmail. I followed the description in the support wiki on dreamhost in order to set it up on my account, this worked flawlessly. This seems to work great and looks beautiful, too; one thing that now bugs me: the connection is unencrypted!

I decided to finish with Swiss web hosters, who in my experience are bad (and pricy). This website is now hosted in the US on the servers of www.dreamhost.com. So far I’m really happy with their offering.

I will migrate my website in the next days, so expect some breakage.

Update: the migration seems to have been successful; if things still break I guess the most probable cause are DNS servers which haven’t updated their mappings, yet.

I just posted some information about the creation of slides with the excellent LaTeX beamer class. It is however not a real tutorial, but rather a description of my workflow. And it isn’t finished yet, so maybe of limited help at the moment… I hope I can add some more information soon.

Beamer tutorial

I updated wordpress from 1.5.* to 2.0. The new version includes various improvements, however I had some problems with the upgrade. I hope everything works now again.

I registered a new domain name: pletscher.org, as I thought the old one doesn’t fit the purpose of this site.

The old address is still valid (and points now to pletscher.org) and will stay valid for at least around a year, afterwards I don’t know what to do with it. So you better update your bookmarks.

I just generated a new PGP public key. You can find it here.