Comments | da_lj: Work mice

da_lj

Work mice

Feb 21, 2007 10:59

I just met with the grad students who had a project for me in December. I've felt like I should've been making faster progress these last two months, especially since it's my first project and I imagined everyone wondering what the hell I was doing. But I didn't have a deadline- it's thesis work and they're not done with data-collection. And ( Read more... )

kinesiology, geek, work

Comments 4

chickenfeet2003 February 21 2007, 17:38:06 UTC

I've always wanted to meet one of the people the mice experiment on...

da_lj February 21 2007, 20:02:49 UTC

...and their mice, I expect, would be interested in meeting you too?

sulle_stelle February 22 2007, 01:25:24 UTC

How cool! Daniel, that's awesome!

I had to learn VB for a data mining class I took (which was through the Wharton School, and not Engineering). It was ok, for what it was, but it's kind of a "kloodgy" (sp?) language. I often felt like my code was held together by scotch tape or something, somehow (though it appeared to function ok)....

da_lj February 22 2007, 03:31:30 UTC

Yes. It works. catbear has mentioned that he's gotten to the point where it feels like a satisfying language to use. For me, it still feels ugly; I'll settle for that, for now.

'On Error Goto 0' just feels icky.

...Of course, much of Perl felt icky and broken when I was starting with it, but then the quirks became endearing in their own way.

I've yet to see a VB program that I thought was elegantly written.