Elena GlassmanA clarinet recital with the young ’unsBundled up against the cold, I walked briskly through the snow-frosted plaza to the front door of my music school in Boston’s North End…Dec 7, 20192Dec 7, 20192
Elena GlassmanVignettes from the ProfessorhoodOutside, Cambridge is receiving its first fluffy, sticky snowfall. Big flakes are falling fast, applying a layer of frosting to the MIT…Dec 3, 2019Dec 3, 2019
Elena GlassmanNation of ImmigrantsExcept for the Native Americans, we are all immigrants, and we just arrived at different times. Sometimes that immigration has been…Jan 30, 20171Jan 30, 20171
Elena GlassmanIt was the best timing. It was the worst timing.Today, I visited the UC Berkeley Psychology building for the first time, to audit a class. As I walked out of the classroom, I looked for…Jan 27, 2017Jan 27, 2017
Elena GlassmanBooks for Graduate StudentsThroughout my graduate school experience, the local bookshops around Cambridge were my refuge. On Saturdays, I could wander in, pick up a…Jan 6, 20172Jan 6, 20172
Elena GlassmanInterpretable Machine LearningMachine learning can be really impressive when it works. For example, Google Photos can now filter my entire photo collection down to just…Sep 6, 2016Sep 6, 2016
Elena GlassmanSelf-diagnosisAfter one hour of lying awake, unable to fall asleep in the dark next to my slumbering partner, my brain decided I had skin cancer. My…Aug 30, 2016Aug 30, 2016
Elena GlassmanClustering: A Very Short, Selective SummaryGrouping similar items, i.e., clustering, is a fundamental human activity for organizing, making sense of, and drawing conclusions from…Aug 4, 2016Aug 4, 2016
Elena GlassmanReading Thousands of Python Solutions at OnceYou teach programming, and you’re in the class computer lab, helping students. The big deadline is approaching, and it’s getting very late…Jul 19, 2016Jul 19, 2016
Elena GlassmanThe Curse of Knowledge in PresentationsI like to think that I productively struggle with how to present my research. (Some may think that I just struggle.) I am always on the…Jul 19, 2016Jul 19, 2016
