Over the years, I recommended using a password manager to hundreds of students... I often recommended popular services on the grounds of convenience. Last month Last Pass announced it would seriously limit the free tier forcing me to do a lot of self reflection about those recommendations. From today onward, last pass would only work... Continue Reading →
Made a Wet Palette and Painted Doomstalker
Last night I painted Doomstalker from Gloomhaven. It seems like it will take a while to get throught Gloomhaven minis... After a few false starts with trying to use glazes to bring out the zenithal highlighting, I said fuck it and did the classic, base layer, shade, highlight triumvirate. I am reasonably satisfied with how... Continue Reading →
Revisiting Old Habits: Painting the Brute from Gloomhaven
These days my evenings are quite uneventful. So in these lockdown days I am revisiting miniature painting. It also helps that I have Gloomhaven lying about waiting to get painted. So today I sat down and painted the Brute from Gloomhaven. Unfortunately I don't have progress pictures. I took some pictures before I begin and... Continue Reading →
New Domain – Irfmeister.com
When I started with İrfan's Adventures, I wanted to use it as a signal in the job market. IrfanKanat.com was just the right amount of boring for that. Now that I no longer care about professional signals, perhaps it's time to turn the blog into something more fun. Irfmeister.com should do it. Sing it to... Continue Reading →
Shyft is shyt
Shyft is an app to replace in home survey for moving companies. The idea is neat enough. Using the phone, you show the surveyor what you want moved and they calculate the volume and weight based on that. The problem is the app should never have left beta. It did not work with any of... Continue Reading →
Non-Linear Regressions on Large Scale Data With nlsLoop nls.multstart Package
A brief aside (I am in crunch mode and can't write more). Getting into nls (very exciting) these days and learning quite a bit about it. One issue with fitting these models is the difficulty of finding appropriate starting values. When you are trying to fit one of these models finding starting values is not... Continue Reading →
OU and Gaming Research
When I joined OU, there were many things that excited me about the university: the location, the culture, colleagues... I must admit research was not one of the reasons I joined OU. Over the years however I came to realize how mistaken I was as OU provides a fertile ground for my kind of research.... Continue Reading →
Being in Hawaii in the middle of January is nice and all, but traveling 21 hours for 4 days is just not worth it.
Today was the first time I joined the board game group at the library! Met real nice people and had lots of fun playing Endeavor together.
Irfmeister's Adventures 