If you see anything unusual or suspicious, just enjoy it while you can
Update: while I'm nerding it up with robotic cranes and convergence plots, in a rare moment of procrastination I found this site which tracks family trees of PhD supervisor-student relations in mathematics. Turns out I come from quite a distinguished pedigree:
All the engineers ought to know Chebyshev polynomials and Markov chains, but some of the more mathematically inclined may also have heard of Lyapunov functions, Voronoi diagrams, the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow, Sobolev spaces, and the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma.
I'm beginning to suspect there is a grand conspiracy, possibly masterminded by the airlines as a post-9/11 recovery strategy, for everyone to wait until I go overseas and then get married with intervals of a few months between them.
Congratumalations to Gus and Liz, who have just got engaged and intend to tie the knot in November. God knows where I'll be then, but if I could be in Australia that would be smashing. General message to everyone else: Wait! There's no rush in these modern times, wait til I'm back in oz, or actually earning money (if either of these ever happen). Sweet merciful cheeses, I'm not wonderwoman.
(For those who are humour impaired, or just retarded, the above faux-anger is not to be taken seriously. I'm of course wonderfully happy for Angypoo and his wooz, and hope I can make it to their nuptuals)
If you don't know Gus and Liz, there are middle and right in this image, recently featured on this here blodge:
Does the engagement oblige Liz to rein in her wandering nipple cripples?
In work-related news, we had a string of visitors to our lab over the last week, one group of industry bigwigs from around Sweden, and another group of academics and businesmenn from Japan.
Overall, things went very well, and the upshot is that I will quite likely be spending 1-3 months in Japan late this year or early next year visiting various robotics labs and schmoozing and building synergy and consuming sushi and such-like.
One of my recent projects: networked control and VR visualization of a robotic crane. Looks pretty, but the tricky part is behind the scenes, for which I'm implementing a variant of this piece of wisdom from the Sav-man and his pal.
me explaining it to the Swedes:
Also, in my other main project, I have figured out a way to observe all the important physical parameters of the cerebrospinal fluid system simultaneously and in real-time, which no one has known how to do before, so this could be quite significant. Convergence plots from simulation:
(second graph is converging, but slowly)
We will be testing it on real data from patient diagnoses next week.
All the engineers ought to know Chebyshev polynomials and Markov chains, but some of the more mathematically inclined may also have heard of Lyapunov functions, Voronoi diagrams, the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow, Sobolev spaces, and the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma.
I'm beginning to suspect there is a grand conspiracy, possibly masterminded by the airlines as a post-9/11 recovery strategy, for everyone to wait until I go overseas and then get married with intervals of a few months between them.
Congratumalations to Gus and Liz, who have just got engaged and intend to tie the knot in November. God knows where I'll be then, but if I could be in Australia that would be smashing. General message to everyone else: Wait! There's no rush in these modern times, wait til I'm back in oz, or actually earning money (if either of these ever happen). Sweet merciful cheeses, I'm not wonderwoman.
(For those who are humour impaired, or just retarded, the above faux-anger is not to be taken seriously. I'm of course wonderfully happy for Angypoo and his wooz, and hope I can make it to their nuptuals)
If you don't know Gus and Liz, there are middle and right in this image, recently featured on this here blodge:
Does the engagement oblige Liz to rein in her wandering nipple cripples?
In work-related news, we had a string of visitors to our lab over the last week, one group of industry bigwigs from around Sweden, and another group of academics and businesmenn from Japan.
Overall, things went very well, and the upshot is that I will quite likely be spending 1-3 months in Japan late this year or early next year visiting various robotics labs and schmoozing and building synergy and consuming sushi and such-like.
One of my recent projects: networked control and VR visualization of a robotic crane. Looks pretty, but the tricky part is behind the scenes, for which I'm implementing a variant of this piece of wisdom from the Sav-man and his pal.
me explaining it to the Swedes:
Also, in my other main project, I have figured out a way to observe all the important physical parameters of the cerebrospinal fluid system simultaneously and in real-time, which no one has known how to do before, so this could be quite significant. Convergence plots from simulation:
(second graph is converging, but slowly)
We will be testing it on real data from patient diagnoses next week.
posted by I-Rock at 2:47 PM
9 Comments:
Well... I am certainly not looking to tie that particular knot anytime soon so you can rest a little lighter.
Japan huh? Sounds good...! You can bring back some sushi for all your friends....
But at the moment, you'd be one of the most convenient, geographically speaking!
Re sushi: I agree, that's the great thing about raw fish. If you can't eat it all, you can just put it in your man-bag and take it with you, carry it overseas, and eat it a few months later.
Awesome graphs. That's some fun engineering.
Solid point, dear moron. I may have to re-think my stance on the whole thing. It is true, I have KT around the corner and you just a hop, skip and swim away. Look out, my ganga Brixton friends, I may be on the prowl!!
PS - I prefer non-convergent results. So much more fun!!
oh don't worry, I've got plenty of non-convergent plots. They just don't get published, even on blogs.
if you're interested, I could send you some in a brown paper bag.
Ian, who are you trying to kid... you are wonderwoman.
Big congrats Gus & Liz - I think you should do the deed in Stockholm. (This could be interpretated many ways. They all involve Ian).
ian, do i detect a haircut in the last photo?
steve: aww, shucks
Alex: actually, no. I just showered that week. Amazing how much of my hair mass was actually moss, which came away in clumps with minimal scrubbing.
Still targeting spain as a place to get a cheap greasy mullet.
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