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	<title>Pinar Yanardag&#039;s Blog</title>
	<link>http://pinguar.org/blog</link>
	<description>The Mythical Women Month</description>
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		<title>After QCon London 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week has mostly been taken up with QCon London. I really had a great time and I would like to give a big thanks to Google for supporting my travel and registration costs.
QCon is a conference focusing on 19 different tracks. Some to mention: Architectures You&#8217;ve Always Wondered About, Software Craftsmanship, Functional programming,  Irresponsible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=388</link>
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		<title>First screenshots of ML-Lab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I wrote that I am going to work on Machine Learning for my master&#8217;s thesis. I am coding an interactive machine learning framework which enables users to run basic/advanced machine learning algorithms online. 
In fact, component based frameworks for collecting together data input/output, pre-processing, classification, clustering, regression and visualization schemes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=380</link>
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		<title>Application and S.O.P Madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement of Purpose (S.O.P) is probably the most annoying thing in the graduate school application process. It is very important because it is your only opportunity to speak up for yourself. You have to structure your essay carefully and explain why you are the best and why you&#8217;re that awesome for the program and unfortunately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=347</link>
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		<title>So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish… *</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By mid of November, I left my job after working two years at TUBITAK UEKAE. I worked with one of the best Open Source teams in Turkey and led Pardus Security Team, therefore I am a bit sad about leaving that early..
Fortunately, the reason for leaving my job leads me closer to my dreams: I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2009</title>
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Last week I attended to Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit at Googleplex, Mountain View. It was definitely one of the best time I had in recent years. First of all, thanks to Leslie, Ellen, Cat, Chris DiBona and Google Open Source program office and everyone who made this happen (I should also thank to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=76</link>
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		<title>Kaptan 4 Preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Kaptan Pardus welcome wizard which aims to help user to configure basic settings on first boot.)
Note: This is the Beta release for Kaptan 4. Design (graphics, colors, layouts) can change until Pardus 2009 stable release (30 days to launch! \m/)
Kaptan4 looks like Kaptan3 but it is fully written in Qt4 and Python. As always, comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=75</link>
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		<title>What’s in my mind..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I try to be a stable blog writer (one post each month seems fine, huh? =)) I just FAIL. So I&#8217;ll write a summary of last few months, ..


 A couple of days ago, I got the following e-mail from Google Diversity Team that was saying I am one of six award winners to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=74</link>
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		<title>An(door)id</title>
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Since I successfully unlocked &#038; signed into my Google account  last week (it was only one step further: an edge or 3g connection! :)), I am happly using Android. It has nice features and geeky enough&#8211;except it rapidly drains battery (i turned brightness down to 0% as a workaround, but still sucks).
I am currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a one way ticket..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I returned to hometown after a painful roadmap (San Jose -> Denver -> Frankfurt -> Istanbul). But the only thing that makes those hours quickly spendable is the people I met &#8211;hopefully I can always find some interesting people to talk with :) This time, at my last transit flight (after 4 + 9 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Mentor Summit @Google, Mountain View</title>
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photo by Austin Ziegler

I was at Google Mentor Summit this weekend. It was at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. It was really amazing to meet with other FOSS developers.

It took 22 hours to arrive CA but hopefully I was strong enough to directy go to the welcome party. :)

First of all, I&#8217;d like to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pinguar.org/blog/?p=69</link>
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