Fear or Laziness?
So, I am nearing the end of my first year of grad school. I have only two weeks of classes left, followed by finals. I am not so worried about the finals, as, well, I always seem to do at least all right on tests. My ability to bullshit rapidly and provide at least cursory evidence of knowledge comes quite easily, so that even tests I am not very prepared for usually at least get a C, and more often than not, a B. But I think my problem with schooling is, and has always been, my hardcore procrastination. You all know about that. But lets see what I have in the next couple of weeks:
Due in 11 days: Term paper (undetermined length, say 10-15 pages) for CN540 on reward learning and temporal difference models inside the basal ganglai (My choice of topics, as I do really care about reward and how it is programmed in the brain, but I have only read 6-7 articles so far, and feel i should read much more if I am to give any truly interesting ideas on it. And the model I really think is cool, done by my professor and a postdoc, is so biochemically hardcore than I have major problems critiquing it, as it would require much more detailed knowledge of basal ganglian synaptic connections, so I cant really tackle that too hard, and most other papers are just tidbits critiquing temporal difference models, often just too theoretical, and are merely computational guesses that play around with a few variables, and reading one paper after another on this gets really old, really fast. So all i have done is those 6-7 readings
Due in 15 days: Term paper for Neurobio of motivated behavior, in the form of a grant proposal. Again, my choice topic, and again, it will be reinforcement learning. I have done diddly for this, but plan on using some of the more biology driven papers from researhing my 540 paper to deliver this. Think of this as the bio side of the modeling paper above. Plus he said I have state some research goals, but that my proposed experiments do not truly have to be feasibly (logical and scientific, but not based in realm of practical science) which could be pretty cool
Due in 16 days: Term project for CN570, on programming a robot to learn how to determine distance based upon motion parallax (nearby objects shift more when changing perspective than distant objects, i.e the fuckin moon always stays in place no matter where we move to) from moving its nect and head. I have done nothing for this, but supposedly I have hearad that no one else has really either in the class. Teacher even made comment about us all starting project weekend before its due (we've had all term). And it is a group project, so others to help with it. But I dont care and dont wanna. Fuck motion parallax
Due in 22 days: Term project for CN550, where we must create/use different learning networks to classify a square inside a circle and predict the stock market. I actually have finished my fuzzy artmap part mostly (though nothing beyond whats required) but gavfe up on the probalistic neural network as all the code I find is bitchy and hates my inputs. Need to jsut sit down and figure out what it wants, but I hate programming still.
Oh, and my finals are respectively 16, 17, and 22 days away, just to add a little work
Why must i be such a bad worker? Lawrence was supposed to kick that out of me. While i am not a total slacker, that is only beacause I can still figure out how to get least amount of work into somethign to get an acceptable amount out. And you wanna knwo something even worse? I havent smoked up here really at all as Im too shy to push into peoples at school, and since my sisters dry and i mostly just ahng here, ive stopped drinkign mostly. All my procastinative efforts are consumed by video games. video games! I have reverted to my old high school self. gotta find a breakout method.
Due in 11 days: Term paper (undetermined length, say 10-15 pages) for CN540 on reward learning and temporal difference models inside the basal ganglai (My choice of topics, as I do really care about reward and how it is programmed in the brain, but I have only read 6-7 articles so far, and feel i should read much more if I am to give any truly interesting ideas on it. And the model I really think is cool, done by my professor and a postdoc, is so biochemically hardcore than I have major problems critiquing it, as it would require much more detailed knowledge of basal ganglian synaptic connections, so I cant really tackle that too hard, and most other papers are just tidbits critiquing temporal difference models, often just too theoretical, and are merely computational guesses that play around with a few variables, and reading one paper after another on this gets really old, really fast. So all i have done is those 6-7 readings
Due in 15 days: Term paper for Neurobio of motivated behavior, in the form of a grant proposal. Again, my choice topic, and again, it will be reinforcement learning. I have done diddly for this, but plan on using some of the more biology driven papers from researhing my 540 paper to deliver this. Think of this as the bio side of the modeling paper above. Plus he said I have state some research goals, but that my proposed experiments do not truly have to be feasibly (logical and scientific, but not based in realm of practical science) which could be pretty cool
Due in 16 days: Term project for CN570, on programming a robot to learn how to determine distance based upon motion parallax (nearby objects shift more when changing perspective than distant objects, i.e the fuckin moon always stays in place no matter where we move to) from moving its nect and head. I have done nothing for this, but supposedly I have hearad that no one else has really either in the class. Teacher even made comment about us all starting project weekend before its due (we've had all term). And it is a group project, so others to help with it. But I dont care and dont wanna. Fuck motion parallax
Due in 22 days: Term project for CN550, where we must create/use different learning networks to classify a square inside a circle and predict the stock market. I actually have finished my fuzzy artmap part mostly (though nothing beyond whats required) but gavfe up on the probalistic neural network as all the code I find is bitchy and hates my inputs. Need to jsut sit down and figure out what it wants, but I hate programming still.
Oh, and my finals are respectively 16, 17, and 22 days away, just to add a little work
Why must i be such a bad worker? Lawrence was supposed to kick that out of me. While i am not a total slacker, that is only beacause I can still figure out how to get least amount of work into somethign to get an acceptable amount out. And you wanna knwo something even worse? I havent smoked up here really at all as Im too shy to push into peoples at school, and since my sisters dry and i mostly just ahng here, ive stopped drinkign mostly. All my procastinative efforts are consumed by video games. video games! I have reverted to my old high school self. gotta find a breakout method.