The title refers to
a) The Java Swing program I'm writing
b) The enormous mood swing that just struck me
Today I was awed by Mr. Stephen Wolfram.Yesterday, I had used the WolframAlpha API. Curious about its development, I read the founder's story. He got his PhD by the time he was 20. He bunked college lectures he found boring and published a paper by the time he was 18. And I felt like, what the hell am I doing with my life. I know hard work, questioning, understanding and creativity. But somewhere I don't know how to combine these things together. If there is one thing that motivated me, it was the never give up attitude. Like the bird's eye and Arjuna from Mahabharat, there was just one goal and nothing else. Stubbornness.
Anyway, most of the morning went in preparation for the afternoon meeting. My friend was presenting her ideas and critiquing such things often sharpen my wits I feel. Later on the programming front, I used the API to convert number names to numerical integers. I had a quirky error due to the fact some equations do not need simplification and I did not check that. Just before the meeting however, I felt highly feverish.
After the meeting, I was totally sick and I didn't even realize it and was in a general bad mood. Continually thinking something isn't exactly healthy. So I took off today early and said hasta la vista.
Oh yes, yesterday I learnt about the normalized Google distance for semantic similarity. It overcomes the shortcomings of WordNet for single words and establishes semantic similarity between phrases like "Artificial Intelligence" and "Machine Learning" using search results; a result that would have hitherto been weird with the four separate words. Again, friends in labs give such interesting facts :)Also started parsing NCERT textbooks for tougher problems that provide more use cases.
Tomorrow, am planning to test the equation solver on the baseline corpora. It should be pretty straightforward as the baseline equations were already simple and they also used EJML for solving. Logically, it should solve them properly with no hitches whatsoever.
a) The Java Swing program I'm writing
b) The enormous mood swing that just struck me
Today I was awed by Mr. Stephen Wolfram.Yesterday, I had used the WolframAlpha API. Curious about its development, I read the founder's story. He got his PhD by the time he was 20. He bunked college lectures he found boring and published a paper by the time he was 18. And I felt like, what the hell am I doing with my life. I know hard work, questioning, understanding and creativity. But somewhere I don't know how to combine these things together. If there is one thing that motivated me, it was the never give up attitude. Like the bird's eye and Arjuna from Mahabharat, there was just one goal and nothing else. Stubbornness.
Anyway, most of the morning went in preparation for the afternoon meeting. My friend was presenting her ideas and critiquing such things often sharpen my wits I feel. Later on the programming front, I used the API to convert number names to numerical integers. I had a quirky error due to the fact some equations do not need simplification and I did not check that. Just before the meeting however, I felt highly feverish.
After the meeting, I was totally sick and I didn't even realize it and was in a general bad mood. Continually thinking something isn't exactly healthy. So I took off today early and said hasta la vista.
Oh yes, yesterday I learnt about the normalized Google distance for semantic similarity. It overcomes the shortcomings of WordNet for single words and establishes semantic similarity between phrases like "Artificial Intelligence" and "Machine Learning" using search results; a result that would have hitherto been weird with the four separate words. Again, friends in labs give such interesting facts :)Also started parsing NCERT textbooks for tougher problems that provide more use cases.
Tomorrow, am planning to test the equation solver on the baseline corpora. It should be pretty straightforward as the baseline equations were already simple and they also used EJML for solving. Logically, it should solve them properly with no hitches whatsoever.
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