Two and a Half Men marathon
News, School, Media ·Sunday May 2, 2010 @ 15:25 EDT (link)
We finished season three of Two and a Half Men this morning, watching the last eight or nine episodes between about 0130 and 0630, with a few breaks.
Most of the day we'd both been working on homework—me on my Data Mining course, Honey on French. This assignment involves building a voted Perceptron to classify spam (the previous assignment had us write a naive Bayes classifier). I had a rather horrible bug which caused my success rates to be terrible (no more than about 70%, and falling back to about 42% and 57% in a 3-cycle); I wasn't clearing the previous message's word counts before adding the next one. Once that was fixed, after much gnashing of teeth (and copious debug tracing), my success rate converged to about 99.9% on the training set and over 98% on the test set, as expected. I may post the code for my various assignments at the end of the course.
Books finished: The Conscience of a Conservative, Politically Correct Guns.
