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Postby Technomancer » Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:04 am

Just finished off my Master's thesis, all 93 pages of it (excluding frontspiece and other unimportant stuff), and am shipping it off to my supervisor to evaluate. Of course, now I've got to summarize it in four pages for a paper I want to submit to ICASSP (their conference is in Montreal this summer, w00t!). And I've got to put together some slides for my defence, and for my supervisor to present to our collaborators in Europe.

I've got to be some kind of an idiot to be continuing on to a Ph.D, I could've been a shoo-in to get a job at Defence R&D Branch (where I used to work). Three or four more years now.....
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

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Postby Mithrandir » Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:34 am

Congrats! Way to go!
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Postby EireWolf » Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:00 am

:jump: Good for you!
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Postby shooraijin » Thu Oct 16, 2003 1:40 pm

Whee!
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Postby Heaven's Cloud » Thu Oct 16, 2003 1:50 pm

That's good! May the best of luck go to you!
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Postby Technomancer » Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:23 pm

Thanks all. I'm most of the way through the ICASSP paper, and will probably knock off for tonight. I think I'll sit back with the new .hack//sign DVD and bottle of Strongbow. Maybe celebrate with some friends on Sat.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

Neil Postman
(The End of Education)

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge

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