I started my new job today, at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training – NCPTT. I’m helping migrate their whole website to WordPress, reformatting old content, prepping release content, and integrating with social media networks. Today I uploaded and tagged about 20 videos to Viddler, which is a service like Youtube but they allow higher quality videos and they can be much longer. I also tagged a fair number of flickr photos on ncptt’s flickr album so that they can be easily found (or, rather, found by accident).

Later on I think I’ll be doing a lot of converting of pdf’s to html, which promises to be tedius. Not much of my job isn’t tedious, but I still kind of like having something to do. LSMSA keeps you so busy all the time that summer almost feels horrible – a huge vat of empty, stress-free time. Nice at first, yes, but after a while it feels irresponsible to not be doing anything.

$0.50 an hour? Well, in a way. It’s actually volunteer work, but they reimburse my lunches

Still working on my distinction. I’ve been prematurely researching Fast Fourier Transforms for my multiplication algorithm…I still have a bit of addition work to do. Well, frankly, I have to write a constructor for my ipfloat class that takes a char* array. That way I can say ipfloat var(“123.31231231234151″) and it’ll construct a nice ipfloat for me. I’ll make a post later about the details of my class.

In any case, FFT’s are really cool. I also skimmed a few articles on Discrete Fourier Transforms, the Fourier Operator, and Fourier Expansions. Fourier expansions seemed especially interesting, and from my skim they look to be the periodic-function-based equivalents to a Taylor expansion…

I think I shall need to write a very long math/computer science post soon.

Also, to keep up my German over the summer, I decided to end each post with a sentence that I make up. For fun, I’ll translate it and compare it to Google’s translation. Here goes:

Wer hat meinen schwarzen Hund genommen?

Who has taken my black dog? (Google: Who has my black dog?)