Last week, and at the start of this week I was feeling really worn out and disillusioned. Things were taking longer than they should, and despite working a lot and effectively I really wasn't making the progress I wanted to be. I felt like I wasn't achieving anything. What this really means, is that on ...
Update: This will take place on Wednesday 18th and Friday 20th November, 7-9pm. Let me know if you're interested. I'm thinking to run a session on this tomorrow, with discussion going on via Wave. Will start at 10 or 11am EST and run for 2 hours, with another 2 hours in the afternoon. Let me know if ...
This week my supervisor, two of my office mates (Amir and Payam) and I have been working hard putting together a presentation we've recorded for a conference in Algeria on Sunday. I laid out the slides in Keynote, using my color scheme (luckily the others were OK with the pink). We've been impressed with how easy ...
CA assignment 3 is now out, and in class today we were looking at the stuff we needed for question 2 (which is ex. 7.1 in the textbook). It's to manually solve the isomorphism for the two graphs below: So I start sketching this out, and then it occurs to me that - ooh, I could ...
For last week: Finish CA Assignment 2 Read 5 papers Code more on Viz Write more on Thesis Get SVN working fully More on website Clear giant e-mail mountain Start tracking morning mood and exercise on Mycrocosm Go to my first hockey game! Also: Cleaned out fridge Swam butterfly again for the first time since I injured my knee (super happy about this!) Spent a lot of time ...
This week I've spent a lot of time debugging other people's code, and we had some fun bugs in class too. This was my favorite bug (I refused to fix it, but she worked out how). I've helped people in C, VB, and Maple - none of which are my favorite languages (I didn't know ...
Sorry - I'm (very) atheist but mostly that remains off this blog. However earlier I saw an excellent debate featuring the awesome Christopher Hitchens and the wonderful Stephen Fry. It's in 5 parts and it was annoying when the part finished at a climatic moment and I was trying to find the next one, so ...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, given certain circumstances I find myself in. And I've realized that in all my time at university (I'm entering my 6th year) I've had two great professors. The kind that inspire you, the student, with passion. Who explain clearly. The ones who teach the classes that you ...
I wonder about this advice. Are there enough scary things out there? Would you not spend so much time scaring yourself that the necessary, but non-scary things, would get left behind? Perhaps I shouldn't be taking it literally. Maybe, it means... push yourself - harder. Aim - higher. Dream. Aspire. Create. Achieve more than you knew you were ...
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