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life outside of the CoC?
Nov. 5th, 2003 02:35 amAll sorts of interesting things. But just things.
Autograding is really satisfying. That may sound heartless, and it is... but I just finished putting together and running an autograder for 2130. That's pretty well involved, putting together an autograde script. Thankfully, I had good examples to look at -- these things catch signals (like SIGSEGV, to handle the likely case that a student's homework is going to segfault) and then do a freaking longjmp() (man 3 longjmp, for a good time) to handle weird failure cases... so it churned through everybody's homework, figured out which ones work and which ones don't, and gave everybody a raw number that will ultimately determine their self-worth.
Rock on!
Yesterday morning, I signed up for classes for Spring. I ended up reordering a few things and signing up for Cognitive Science instead of the Technical Communications Practices, because you have to be a presidential scholar on the football team and kill a graduating senior before you can get a slot for LCC3401. That's just not a good system -- everybody needs to take it to graduate, so they only offer... well, not as many sections of it as they should.
But you know what? Cognitive Science looks like it's going to be right up my alley :) I spoke with Kurt Eiselt (AI dude, assistant dean of the CoC and generally hoopy frood) about this, and I think we had a bonding moment... he seemed interested that I was interested in what interests him, which is symbolic, language-y AI and cog-sci. He said that maybe we could work out an independent study in which I'd do more or less what the Natural Language Understanding course would normally do, because he'd taught that, back when it was offered last year. But they're not offering it right now, but I want to take it... and I think that would be groovy. Perhaps this could become a senior research project. Essentially, he does (or has done) what I want to do, and he seems like a good human being, so the logical course of action is for me to try to get under his research banners whilst I'm an undergrad... I should write him an email to explain all of this.
I haven't said anything really interesting in here for a while... it feels almost like I haven't been feeling or thinking anything particularly profound. This is a strange situation. Where do the emotions go?
I'm off of coffee for the week, just because I can be. That probably has something to do with it.
But at least we have the ongoing "... by which I mean..." joke going on :)
Autograding is really satisfying. That may sound heartless, and it is... but I just finished putting together and running an autograder for 2130. That's pretty well involved, putting together an autograde script. Thankfully, I had good examples to look at -- these things catch signals (like SIGSEGV, to handle the likely case that a student's homework is going to segfault) and then do a freaking longjmp() (man 3 longjmp, for a good time) to handle weird failure cases... so it churned through everybody's homework, figured out which ones work and which ones don't, and gave everybody a raw number that will ultimately determine their self-worth.
Rock on!
Yesterday morning, I signed up for classes for Spring. I ended up reordering a few things and signing up for Cognitive Science instead of the Technical Communications Practices, because you have to be a presidential scholar on the football team and kill a graduating senior before you can get a slot for LCC3401. That's just not a good system -- everybody needs to take it to graduate, so they only offer... well, not as many sections of it as they should.
But you know what? Cognitive Science looks like it's going to be right up my alley :) I spoke with Kurt Eiselt (AI dude, assistant dean of the CoC and generally hoopy frood) about this, and I think we had a bonding moment... he seemed interested that I was interested in what interests him, which is symbolic, language-y AI and cog-sci. He said that maybe we could work out an independent study in which I'd do more or less what the Natural Language Understanding course would normally do, because he'd taught that, back when it was offered last year. But they're not offering it right now, but I want to take it... and I think that would be groovy. Perhaps this could become a senior research project. Essentially, he does (or has done) what I want to do, and he seems like a good human being, so the logical course of action is for me to try to get under his research banners whilst I'm an undergrad... I should write him an email to explain all of this.
I haven't said anything really interesting in here for a while... it feels almost like I haven't been feeling or thinking anything particularly profound. This is a strange situation. Where do the emotions go?
I'm off of coffee for the week, just because I can be. That probably has something to do with it.
But at least we have the ongoing "... by which I mean..." joke going on :)
