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we're going to do it with computers
Apr. 21st, 2010 01:05 amTalking with Mike today, I brought up some of my frustrations with the CS program here, wondering whether I should switch to Cognitive Science or something else.
In a lot of ways, cogsci sounds kind of like what I want to do, and as I understand it, the program here is quite good. Discussing with Mike today, though, we uncovered two objections to my switching over: (a) they only have so much funding, and probably won't admit many students in the near future, and (b) to be in the cogsci program, it's pretty important that you care about cognition.
He said, and this made me feel really good: he likes that my goal is building software, because that's what he's out to do now too. Questions of psychological plausibility are only so interesting. (and they are kind of interesting.) But we're not going to do machine translation with brains, we're going to do it with computers, and hopefully it'll be useful to people.
(the downside, of course: I may have to take some dumb CS distribution requirement courses, which I feel like I shouldn't have to take because, y'know, I've already got an MS in this, and it's senselessly difficult to get my classes from gatech to transfer here.)
In a lot of ways, cogsci sounds kind of like what I want to do, and as I understand it, the program here is quite good. Discussing with Mike today, though, we uncovered two objections to my switching over: (a) they only have so much funding, and probably won't admit many students in the near future, and (b) to be in the cogsci program, it's pretty important that you care about cognition.
He said, and this made me feel really good: he likes that my goal is building software, because that's what he's out to do now too. Questions of psychological plausibility are only so interesting. (and they are kind of interesting.) But we're not going to do machine translation with brains, we're going to do it with computers, and hopefully it'll be useful to people.
(the downside, of course: I may have to take some dumb CS distribution requirement courses, which I feel like I shouldn't have to take because, y'know, I've already got an MS in this, and it's senselessly difficult to get my classes from gatech to transfer here.)
