Ideal parent of a high reactive child

Quoted from Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

Someone who can read your cues and respect your individuality; is warm and firm in placing demands on you without being harsh or hostile; promotes curiosity, academic achievement, delayed gratification, and self-control; and is not harsh, neglectful, or inconsistent.

Sequence alignment paper

Need to take a look at this for bitmatching.
Dynamic programming and sequence alignment

Paper from Todd Veldhuizen

This is a nice summary of techniques used in the development of Blitz++
Techniques for Scientific C++

Household hazardous waste disposal

Household hazardous waste disposal

More setbacks

It's all too often now that I experience another blow to my fragile self-esteem. I often feel confident about the amount of learning I have gather over the period. But to excel in what I do, I have to take extra steps beyond what is provided to really make an impact. Being severely drained as I am, I'm not how much more effort I can squeeze out of me...

HK Locations

Swindon book co. Ltd
13-15 Lock Road,
Tsimshatsui
MTR Tsimshatsui Exit C2
858-2366-8001

Heading to DB

I think this is a very special place and one that I'm particularly fond of.

• DB D-Deck dining

Workload

It's one of those moments when you felt your intuition is correct and you have put in significant effort to start the process, but all of a sudden you have been told your intuition will not lead you to the usefulness people see in you in the future.

Now I'm taking a step back and make sure I will not lead myself astray but trust the guidance of an expert more experienced than I am.

Anyway. It's complex.

How do you get gigabit per second over the air?

This question is still keeping my awake during the night.

• Multiple bits per symbol is a given; there is simply no technology out there that can digitize at gigasample per second.
• Multiple antenna - how do you pack up to four antenna to a device? I can picture that being possible on a decent sized laptop, at 5GHz or more, over short distance with a favourable channel.
• Getting gigabits to the home. This becomes a question of what type of infrastructure is required to do just that. Fiber to the home, and a wireless access point (femtocell). A cell tower managing hundreds of gigabits of data over the air will be challenging.
• A lot has to take place, similar to idea of fuel cell vehicles. Infrastructure is a significant issue.

Simulations

It appears most simulations are done in a Linux environment. Research tools are both open and actively worked on by the academic community as well as the industry.

However, a fair amount of practical implementation tools are developed on Window.

Survey of the disciplines in communications research

The study of communications encompasses the following theories

• Information theory
• Coding theory
• Dectection theory
• Control theory
• Network theory
• Computation theory
• Game theory

The underlying fundamentals consist of

• Linear systems and signals
• Statistics and random processes
• Antenna & wave propagation

Simulations

• Large Deviation Theory
• Importance sampling

Implementation level

• DSP and alogrithms
• RF/Microwave circuits
• Embedded systems

Illustrations in Latex documents

I've searched around for tools to help with creating diagrams. The closest contender seems to be something that is vector based and supports importing and exporting eps format.

One expensive choice is Adobe Illustrator + MathType. Even at student price, Illustrator is still prohibitively $$$.

A good contender is Inkscape but it's not mature enough for dealing with importing eps equations and editing them in place.

Library barcode system

Keeping track of the details for our library setup.

• My old Toshiba Portege A100 laptop
• Metrologic MS9540 (part of Honeywell) - $150
• Barcode labels (1000 labels) -$28
• Gaylord
• Brodart
• Demco

Barcode details

• Symbology: code 3 of 9, 5-6 Characters, no check code
• Heading: "Mira Mesa Chinese Baptist Church"
• Sequence: nnnnn (n = 0-9, e.g. 01234)

Testing formulas

This is a cool way of adding formulas to email/blogs. However it's not supported natively on the browser. Under the hood, it makes a request to a server for an embedded gif image.

The LaTex Equation Editor website is here

UCSD planning

• Take first quarter at $8,000, no-support.

Winning moves

A very good cheat sheet on Winning Eleven (PES)'s moves.

Thought record

Now is the time to blow the dust off my blog and start something substantial. I'll have to see what I want to place on here. I'll start off probably by writing what I've learned during the period.

Hair Stylist

Stylist: Maki
Muse Beauty Salon
7710 Balboa Ave. Suite 125
San Diego, CA
92111

LA Restaurants

Maxim Cafe

Hong Kong style western dishes

18904 East Gale Ave,

Rowland Heights, CA 91748

626-913-7777

A&J Restaurant
Taiwanese

14805 Jeffrey Rd. #D
Irvine, CA 92720
949-786-3585

July 19, 2008
The Kitchen
203 West Valley Blvd.
Alhambra, CA 91801
626-289-4828
Upscale chinese cuisine, relatively speaking. Great food.

Tasty Garden
288 West Valley Blvd.
Alhambra, CA 91801
626-300-8262

July 4, 2008
Din Tai Fung
1108 South Baldwin Avenue (First store)
1088 South Baldwin Avenue (New, larger, modern looking)
Arcadia, CA 91007
626-574-7068

Phoenix Food Boutique
1108 South Baldwin Avenue
Arcadia, CA 91007
626-284-2388
Beside the drinks, casual food, it has amazingly tasty curry fish balls, not to be missed.

SD Restaurants

This is where I will compile a list of restaurants and how their fare.

Chedi Thai Bistro
737 Pearl St. Suite 110

La Jolla, CA 92037

858-551-8424

Lanna Thai Cruisine
4501 Mission Bay Dr.
San Diego, CA 92109
858-274-8424

Extraordinary Desserts - Little Italy

1430 Union St.

San Diego, CA 92101

619-294-7001

Tajima Japanese Restaurant
4681 Convoy St
San Diego, CA 92111
(858) 576-7244

Curry House - Japanese style curry and spaghetti
3860 Convoy St. #102
San Diego, CA 92111
(858) 278-2454

Ichiro Japanese Restuarant
4344 Convoy St # Q
San Diego, CA 92111
(858) 565-8603

Lorna's Italian Kitchen
3945 Governer Drive
San Diego, CA 92122
858-452-0661

Dae Jang Keum (Korean fine Cuisine)
7905 Engineer Rd.
San Diego, CA 92111
858-573-2585

Sante Ristorante (Italian) - May 17, 2008
Located at an inside street in La Jolla, not that busy compared to the ones along the coast. But this is a Gem that cannot be missed. Excellent seafood pasta, and delicious tartufo. Highly recommend.

7811 Herschel Avenue
La Jolla, CA
858-454-1315

KI sushi - May 14, 2008
I like the atmosphere and lunch is not bad for the price you pay.

Costa Verde Shopping Center
8650 Genesee Ave
San Diego, CA 92122

Cafe Coyote - May 4, 2008
Great taste of Margaritas and Mexican food.

2461 San Diego Avenue
San Diego, CA 92110

Osetra - May 1, 2008
Gorgeous and modern ambiance with a spectacular 3 storey wine collection and suspension lift for getting the wine! Expensive place, but well worth a visit. Thanks Shirley for bringing me there!

904 5th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Gaslamp Quarters