please allow me

this self-praise. But last Friday was likely one of the happiest days of my existence in San Diego. Not only I've completed an overall distance running of 500km, but more importantly, in one of toughest courses in the department, Parameter Estimation, and after a tumultuous quarter (it's becoming an habit), I have pulled an A+

Aqui o velhote deu uma lição à canalhada :)

by the way..

I don't think I've introduced you to my fellow labmates. Have a look at SVCL's people.
The lab is split into two rooms. I'm in one room together with Vijay and Nikhil, two of the senior guys in the lab. The other two senior, Sunhyoung and Hamed, and the other fellow junior researchers, Weixin, Kritika and Mohammad, are in the other room. A side from these two open spaces, the lab owner, Nuno, usually sits at his office which is fairly close to both spaces.

the question I would prefer not to see in tomorrow's final

prove the four Moore-Penrose conditions for existence of M, pseudoinverse of A.
1. (AM)* = AM
2. (MA)* = MA
3. AMA = A
4. MAM = M

The proof is understandable but it's definitely not straightforward...

Peter, Bjorn and John

Before the stressing finals week, a little relaxation in a concert at the House of Blues, downtown San Diego. Peter, Bjorn and John. You might know them, here is a clip of their biggest hit captured "in loco".

After that, back to study... Upps, what a mess!