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		<title>Mr. Yuk at Chicago Invite</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/04/08/mr-yuk-at-chicago-invite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, Mr. Yuk headed west to Chicago for our last tournament before the series. We were on a six-game losing streak after a terrible Sunday at Queen City Tune-up and a possibly worse Saturday at Easterns Qualifier, but for the first time since the fall, we had a full roster, which suggested we might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Simple Explanation of Spectral Clustering</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/03/16/simple-spectral-clustering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to write a post about some of the research I&#8217;ve been working on but I realized that my work has gotten really technical and not very accessible to someone not in machine learning. So I thought as a precursor I would write about spectral clustering at a very high level and with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Yuk at Easterns Qualifier</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/03/06/mr-yuk-at-easterns-qualifier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Mr. Yuk made the 11 hour drive from Pittsburgh back to Wilmington, NC for Easterns Qualifier, hosted by UNCW. After a fairly disappointing showing at Queen City, we were looking to turn things around and earn some big wins this weekend. Unfortunately, due to injuries, midterms, and other commitments, we only brought 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grad School Stuff VI: Choosing an Advisor</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/02/26/grad-school-stuff-vi-choosing-an-advisor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/02/26/grad-school-stuff-vi-choosing-an-advisor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CMU finished making acceptance decisions for the computer science department and I opted to be a student contact for a some of the admits. One of them asked me about choosing an advisor and specifically what factors he should consider in making this decision. This is a really important decision for incoming and first year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Yuk at Queen City Tune Up</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/02/14/mr-yuk-at-queen-city-tune-up-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, Carnegie Mellon&#8217;s Men&#8217;s ultimate team, Mr. Yuk, made the 8 hour drive out of snowy Pittsburgh to Charlotte, NC for Queen City Tune-Up. This was our first tournament since early November (Fall Easterns) and we have had very few opportunities to actually play ultimate since returning to school in January. While we haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updates to the Academic Publishing Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/02/05/updates-to-the-academic-publishing-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/02/05/updates-to-the-academic-publishing-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight against academic publishers is heating up as Tyler Neylon&#8217;s website continues to gain support against Elsevier. If you haven&#8217;t heard, the website is a place where you can publicly declare that you will boycott Elsevier, one of the academic publishers with particularly terrible practices. It may have been created in response to Timothy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Interesting Articles</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/21/some-interesting-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I found several interesting online articles that I&#8217;d like to share here. The first relates to SOPA and PIPA, the two legislative acts about fighting online copyright infringement. I personally don&#8217;t know too much about them but in an effort to learn about these pieces of legislation, I found a report published by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Code Book</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/12/the-code-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/12/the-code-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Simon Singh Singh recounts the history of cryptography, starting from the primitive ciphers used in ancient times, through the famous protocols used in World Wars I and II, and up to the current state of the art in public key cryptography, including a brief tour of quantum cryptography. His discussion starts with the famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fahrenheit 451</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/09/fahrenheit-451/</link>
		<comments>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/09/fahrenheit-451/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Ray Bradbury In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury describes a dystopian supposedly-futuristic society in which reading is not allowed. This policy is enforced by book burnings orchestrated by government-employed firemen. The novel follows Guy Montag, a fireman who starts questioning the censorship policy after meeting a young girl with a unique curiosity, and after he watches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born to Run</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/02/born-to-run/</link>
		<comments>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/02/born-to-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Christopher McDougall In &#8220;Born to Run,&#8221; sports journalist McDougall helps organize an epic 50-mile race between some of the best long-distance runners in the world. These athletes include several champion ultra-marathoners from the U.S. as well as several Tarahumara, a native american people living in the Copper Canyons of Mexico. Organizing the race is [...]]]></description>
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