The die is cast: my qualifying exam presentation is scheduled for 9 May, so it'll be the second to last major thing I do before I'm out of here for the summer.
Between now and then, I need to turn this fuzzy-search project I've been working on and bending everyone's ear about into a fifteen-page paper. Most of that will be taken up by A Concise History of Just About Everything To Do with Association and Similarity Classification; describing the project itself will just be a couple of pages, because really, the system isn't that damn complicated. (Counting the wrappers I've had to write, but not counting the libraries it's built on, the entire thing comes in at just under a thousand lines of code.) I'll also rabbit on for a bit about where I plan to take the project (read: "Get ready, because in another six months this is what I'll be giving my comps presentation over"), which should eat another page or two. The hard part -- the system -- is done. This is the bite-my-lip-and-grind-it-out part.
Current plan: knock out a first draft by Monday, then have it revised by the time
yoctohedron gets here on Thursday, so as not to be Horribly Antisocial Girl during that time.
All things considered, this is really no worse than writing up an entire syntax midterm the morning it's due, and I've done that without blinking before.
Between now and then, I need to turn this fuzzy-search project I've been working on and bending everyone's ear about into a fifteen-page paper. Most of that will be taken up by A Concise History of Just About Everything To Do with Association and Similarity Classification; describing the project itself will just be a couple of pages, because really, the system isn't that damn complicated. (Counting the wrappers I've had to write, but not counting the libraries it's built on, the entire thing comes in at just under a thousand lines of code.) I'll also rabbit on for a bit about where I plan to take the project (read: "Get ready, because in another six months this is what I'll be giving my comps presentation over"), which should eat another page or two. The hard part -- the system -- is done. This is the bite-my-lip-and-grind-it-out part.
Current plan: knock out a first draft by Monday, then have it revised by the time
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All things considered, this is really no worse than writing up an entire syntax midterm the morning it's due, and I've done that without blinking before.