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	<title>My geek blog - Brian McQuay</title>
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	<description>My Ruby on Rails experience, web development tips including SEO, and contributions to open source projects</description>
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		<title>3 new I18n gems for your Rails 3 app</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy building 3 new translation gems for a new application I&#8217;m working on. The first is i18n-country-translations. It breaks countries down into their standard country codes and adds translates for different locales. This gem can be easily incorporated into other gems or apps that need I18n country translations. Just add this to your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instead of searching for water on other planets, why not search for space debris?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this image today and it made me think of how scientists have been searching for water around distant plants. If humans have created this much space debris, its reasonable to assume another developing civilization on a distant planet would also have generated this amount of space debris. Perhaps instead of a quest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t see the forest for the trees &#8211; Robots, AI, and the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Machine Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to share some ideas I&#8217;ve had today about robotics, ai, and the internet. First lets discuss robotics. There has been much work in the field of robotics to create bi-pedal humanoid like machines. Much, if not most, of the work pursues what I consider the ideal: being as human as possible. When you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Years Resolution: Build my first robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been all over the place lately on deciding what I should do and commit my time to. For the past 8 or so years, I&#8217;ve been building Ruby on Rails applications and though I&#8217;m pretty good at it I don&#8217;t find it intellectually challenging. I keep coming back to the idea of going back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in myself: Realizing my value as a programmer</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/investing-in-myself-realizing-my-value-as-a-programmer/437</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/investing-in-myself-realizing-my-value-as-a-programmer/437#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a programmer, you have an invaluable skill that you need to learn to harness. Investors realize this already which is why they&#8217;ll spend stacks of cash to have you build them something that&#8217;ll someday be profitable. Large corporations realize the value in good developers and sometimes bend over backwards trying to retain their top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the Devil&#8217;s Advocate: An Argument for SOPA</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/playing-the-devils-advocate-an-argument-for-sopa/433</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s much ado online these past few weeks promoting the demise of the SOPA act. Many smart people are arguing it will destroy the internet as we know it. That may be true but that may also be exactly what we need. We&#8217;ve long known about the problems with the current DNS system from its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading Webster&#8217;s Classroom from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.1</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/upgrading-websters-classroom-from-rails-2-3-to-rails-3-1/430</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/upgrading-websters-classroom-from-rails-2-3-to-rails-3-1/430#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ruby on Rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rails 3.1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redesign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refactor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently tasked myself with performing a major upgrade for Webster&#8217;s Classroom. It includes both a complete site redesign and an upgrade to the latest version of Rails. We all know its a bit of a pain to upgrade from Rails 2 to Rails 3 but the longer you put off the upgrade the more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent developments</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/recent-developments/426</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianmcquay.com/?p=426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its been quite some time since I posted anything so I feel a necessity to publish something. I&#8217;ve started many posts since the last one but I never really liked how they turned out so I discarded them. I&#8217;ve learned plenty of new things which I tried to share but never had enough time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure and Abstraction&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/review-of-how-to-grow-a-mind-statistics-structure-and-abstraction/415</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/review-of-how-to-grow-a-mind-statistics-structure-and-abstraction/415#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Machine Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was an amazing lecture by Josh Tenenbaum. He presents motivation for determining the type of data structure for representing knowledge without knowing how the knowledge is best organized a priori. He presents the ways children learn and how they organize knowledge at an early age starting at a very simple structure and building up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Latent Factor Models for Relational Arrays and Network Data&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/review-of-latent-factor-models-for-relational-arrays-and-network-data/410</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/review-of-latent-factor-models-for-relational-arrays-and-network-data/410#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Modeling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was an excellent video lecture on latent factor models by Peter Hoff. The speaker goes over various other models that may fit social network data. He presents a comparison of the models to a sample data set of a highschool. The comparisons show that the latent factor model is able to fit characteristics of [...]]]></description>
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