MentatJack

Trying to get into the habit of posting again. Here’s a quick peek at what’s on mind at the moment. Hopefully more to follow

Stuff I’m working on:

• Learning and experimenting with Mahout – Machine learning for recommendations, clustering and classification
• Twitter API – First a simple SFF poll and then on to more interesting projects
• TagShadow Fixes
  • The large and interesting pages (like the global Locus Recommended Reading page) are unwieldy. Working on that.
  • Facebook shares reference wrong images. need to fix
  • Entering Locus Recommended Reading works

Reading:

• subscribed to Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Analog, Interzone, Locus
• listening regularly to fiction from Clarkesworld, EscapePod, PseudoPod, PodCastle, Drabblecast and Lightspeed
• Listening regularly to Coode St., AiSFP, Writing Excuses, SF Signal, Functional Nerds, The Writer and The Critic, SF Squeecast, Locus Round Tables and The Outer Alliance Podcast
• Tracking my reading at Good Reads. Annoying that I can’t track short fiction.

Blog posts I’m working on (some for quite a while):

• Review of Kafkaesque – Great anthology. Owe this review to Adventures in SciFi Publishing
• Review of Distress by Greg Egan. Written this review 3 times now. There’s a ton of good stuff here but I’m having organizational issues .
• there are more

Authors I’m trying to read more of (novels):

• Greg Egan
• Tricia Sullivan
• Marie Brennan
• Jay Lake
• Kim Stanley Robinson
• C. J. Cherryh

Fantasy series I’m in the middle of:

• Ken Scholes’ The Psalms of Isaak
• A Song of Ice and Fire

Thought:
Why are awards not given more often?

~ by mentatjack on February 5, 2012.

Posted in meta
Tags: c j cherryh, clustering and classification, Greg Egan, kim stanley, Kim Stanley Robinson, Tricia Sullivan