Wednesday, January 27, 2010

LaTeX, subfig, subfigure, subfloat and table

Just crashed my head for half an hour on LaTeX bc I was trying to use an ordinary \begin{table}.. in a document using \usepackage{subfig} for subfloats like:

\begin{figure}

\centering

\subfloat[Raw Line Extraction]{\label{fig:lex_raw}\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{EXPS/raw_extraction.png}}

\hspace{4pt}

\subfloat[Using Timestamp Matching]{\label{fig:lex_tm}\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{EXPS/matched_extraction.png}}
\caption{Line Feature Extraction while spinning at +$1rad/s$; orange lines represent real walls.}

\label{fig:lExtraction}

\end{figure}


It'll just mess up with your table's caption... seems that there's something related to the caption package.
This problem will make your tables look like this:


The solution is to dump \usepackage{subfig} in favor of \usepackage{subfigure} and \subfloat[..]{..} in favor of \subfigure[..]{..}.. the rest is all the same

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Procrastination Failed!

Deadlines are useful on putting a limit to perfectionism.. otherwise one wouldn't do much.
And then now.. time to another!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

This is blood for blood and by the gallon.

These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days.
Since I should be working, I'll be fast here..

A ideia é estourar o reto do pessoal!

G.C. on rape.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Not Procrastinating

I can't post anything really good now because I have to finish my article.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Meta-procastination..

So it's like this, I'm procrastinating my work...
Currently, I'm starting to write an article so it really is like the "writer's blockage".
You start a sentence, then you don't quite find a good way to finish it.. and then you read it all over again and it sound bad. That's when you delete your newly created sentence and you're back at zero again. After two or three iterations of this, you start to look at your e-mail, IM, news; you name it! And then... BANG! You realize that you really ARE procrastinating, you start feeling useless, lazy, cheating on your job and things like that.
This is when "meta-procrastination" starts, you start writing a blog post about your current dilemma, pondering about what are the implications of this, how to eradicate such behavior, etc. But still.. you are there, sitting on your chair, writing this blog post and thinking things like:
Probably post like this are commonplace when regarding procrastination

or even suggesting that probably
Every work on the study of procrastination on all probability was coined by someone procrastinating some other thing

As a matter of fact, I may start to work now.. but first, in order to keep this blog's purpose:

Lavoura Arcaica is a poetic Brazilian movie (note that the posted poster is for the French adv.), full of insightful, heart touching and mind breaking monologues. More than that, it's an intricate verbal puke of a guy whose problems, although most of them mundane, have deeper implications resulting from the whole, so called "perfect", bounding environment. And then, adding the cherry on top of the pie, there is the beautiful, all dancing, provoking mute girl... (hehe.. trying not to spoil any good thing)
Ok.. back to work!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

How unique is the human being?



For the ones that shared with me a holly moment, a beer or a bar table, this talk may be a good thought provoking one or even just a "a-ha! I knew it" thing.

For example, I wasn't aware of the way dopamine works (as showcased on the video) but now I see it all makes complete sense.. just my older posts on "pleasure delaying".. its there!
On faith; I just totally agree with that guy and that makes me a little less "human" in the direction of being more "chimpanzee-like"... which is great!

If you watch the video from start (by default it will auto-play starting from ~5:00), there's a little bit of an introduction on the guy and check the book he wrote:
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

That could serve to someone I know.. but anyway..

c ya!