![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
*sways*collapses*
31 October 2006 18:50Woooh. I'm having one of those so-tired-I'm-dizzy evenings. This being in spite of having got 9 hours' sleep last night.
I think it's London. And the Tube. It's been a busy day.
I got into the lab assuming that at 11am I'd leave again and get the Tube to Kew for a meeting, only to have a semi-frantic back and forth e-mail with 2 supervisors about timing and so on. The meeting was moved back 1 hour, leaving me with an extra hour in the lab to motivate myself and do something useful. So I messed about with some more code and read a few papers.
Tube to Kew. Got lunch from the organic place in Kew Village, made mistake of not reading the ingredients in enough detail and bought a wrap with 3 different ingredients I don't really like. Oops. Oh well. Realised late October is really rather cold, and shivered.
Meeting was encouraging and made me pretty optimistic (as in, the likelihood of lots of papers coming out of the project), and as usual filled with ideas. We got going again after an hour, hopping back on the good ol' District line and heading to South Ken and Imperial college.
Another meeting, this time with a statistician at Imperial. Not much was decided, but enthusiasm was shared. It seems the data I have to analyse is annoyingly resistant to being analysed! The statistician seemed to imply that there weren't any programs with the compuational power to tackle the enormous unwieldy function required to test the significance of our data. It left me wanting to know more, as it sounds like the best way to do it would just be to write the function in a pretty hardcore programming language, press "start" and then come back 3 days later to see the results. In any case, running statistics on the data will be a fairly key part of actually getting my papers, so it must be done. Even though it sounds Scary.
Once more on to the Tube. Delays on District Line, signal failure at Monument. Train crawling along. So changed to Victoria Line and thence to Central Line, which left me with a 10 minute walk home but was so desperate to get out of the obnoxious Tube system that I didn't care any more.
One of my Amazon orders arrived. Talk about overpackaging!! The box is around 35x25x15cm. And contains...
...one 1.5m patch cable. Coiled up. This would have fitted in A5 JIFFY BAG!!
Way to go with conserving world resources, Amazon!
I think it's London. And the Tube. It's been a busy day.
I got into the lab assuming that at 11am I'd leave again and get the Tube to Kew for a meeting, only to have a semi-frantic back and forth e-mail with 2 supervisors about timing and so on. The meeting was moved back 1 hour, leaving me with an extra hour in the lab to motivate myself and do something useful. So I messed about with some more code and read a few papers.
Tube to Kew. Got lunch from the organic place in Kew Village, made mistake of not reading the ingredients in enough detail and bought a wrap with 3 different ingredients I don't really like. Oops. Oh well. Realised late October is really rather cold, and shivered.
Meeting was encouraging and made me pretty optimistic (as in, the likelihood of lots of papers coming out of the project), and as usual filled with ideas. We got going again after an hour, hopping back on the good ol' District line and heading to South Ken and Imperial college.
Another meeting, this time with a statistician at Imperial. Not much was decided, but enthusiasm was shared. It seems the data I have to analyse is annoyingly resistant to being analysed! The statistician seemed to imply that there weren't any programs with the compuational power to tackle the enormous unwieldy function required to test the significance of our data. It left me wanting to know more, as it sounds like the best way to do it would just be to write the function in a pretty hardcore programming language, press "start" and then come back 3 days later to see the results. In any case, running statistics on the data will be a fairly key part of actually getting my papers, so it must be done. Even though it sounds Scary.
Once more on to the Tube. Delays on District Line, signal failure at Monument. Train crawling along. So changed to Victoria Line and thence to Central Line, which left me with a 10 minute walk home but was so desperate to get out of the obnoxious Tube system that I didn't care any more.
One of my Amazon orders arrived. Talk about overpackaging!! The box is around 35x25x15cm. And contains...
...one 1.5m patch cable. Coiled up. This would have fitted in A5 JIFFY BAG!!
Way to go with conserving world resources, Amazon!
