Still Alive. It’s been relatively quite here because I’ve been swamped
with end-of-term activities. The problem with working on five year
long projects is that deadlines are self-imposed. My strategy has been
to make sticky notes with tasks and not getting up until I strike off
the task and crumple the note. This has been super effective for me.
It’s nice to feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day with
the big pile of crumpled notes. Hey, what ever works!
This isn’t so good for learning stuff. I’ve had to do a fair bit of
machine learning for some of the tasks I’m doing right now, and all of
the language is foreign to me. It took me about a week to learn how to
check for group mean differences between samples, but only about an
hour to implement it in code. I guess this is “holding a program in one’s head.“
To meet accreditation requirements, Engineering students are required
to do a major work term report atleast once. This is a big
undertaking. Fortunately, I’m doing mine on my latest infatuation:
fluid match. I’ve written a couple of sections, but it’s still
lacking cohesiveness.
I’m also happy to say that I’ve decided to do my honors thesis at the
Medical Image Analysis Lab, where I’ve been working for the
past eight months. The exact details of my project are to worked out,
so I don’t have much to say at this point.
I didn’t know what some of the settings on my camera were and this
bothered me. I whipped out the manual (I thought I had trashed it, as
I usually do) and checked it out. I can now take pictures like the one
above with little difficulty, and it looks like I know what I’m
doing. It’s still long ways before I exhaust the capabilities of my
current camera.
Life’s Good.
