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A SelfControl Workaround

UPDATE:  I now use K9 on windows (a parental controls app that does the job for me : http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ ) (Posted since I saw some traffic to this page recently). I recently made the switch from Mac OS X to Windows (I now own a 17” XPS which is an absolute beast of a machine). I have [...]

More Updates to Listener

One of the rather irritating problems I was facing with Listener was that I had to set the intensity threshold for an alert manually (which is rather stupid). So I added a couple of lines that set the intensity threshold to what the average intensity of the surroundings currently is. So I no longer have [...]

Listener Gets a VAD

So, the beginning of the 4th semester in the midst of losers and overachievers and this sem promises to set my a$$ on fire. As usual, I plan to continue working under Dr. Kihara this sem so that should be interesting. Anyway, I decided to improve upon what listener offered and decided to add a [...]

The One PITA

Well, it is thanksgiving break and I was so far having a decent semester, straight As in all exams (a perfect score in economics – not that I should be proud of it or anythin) and then terror strikes. Or well whatever the college version of a cataclysm is. I managed to f’kin ruin (misunderstand) [...]

Tinkering With A New Project

Tinkering With A New Project

During the vacation this summer, I began working on creating an app that would help me respond to calls of attention when my auditory sensory capabilities were compromised courtesy the noise cancellation capabilities of my Bose headsets. Well, I managed to make a few mods to that script, used a touch of applescript (thank god [...]

Bio-Informatics

It has been an amazing first week at college here. First, I began working with Prof Kihara and got to see a whopping 160 thousand (!) annotations. The coolest part is that I got to see a few protein function prediction algorithms (I get to code! Yippee!). Well, at one point I had to whip [...]