Post #71,166
12/27/02 10:14:33 PM
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I've been accepted!
Colorado School of Mines has accepted my application for their Ph.D program in Mathematics and Computer Science.
I have to admit that I'm a little torn between nervous and really psyched. I'm considering concentrating on machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Before you know it, I'll have a proper pointy hat with lots of letters after my name! (Pratchett reference alert!)
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #71,169
12/27/02 10:16:19 PM
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Congrats!!!
Hopefully you can straighten out a few people here....
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Post #71,201
12/28/02 12:19:06 AM
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As I say to my boss
I'll be studying artificial intelligence since there's so little of the real thing around...
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #71,172
12/27/02 10:32:40 PM
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Excellent!
Congratulations, Tom! :-)
Reminds me, how's the Regis thing going? Wife starts her Master's program (MLA - Counseling) there in a week or so.
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Steve
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Post #71,202
12/28/02 12:23:20 AM
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Actually
I never did hear from them and I'm still pretty steamed.
I don't think they liked my attitude. When they mentioned that their goal was to prepare their students to be months ahead of the industry re: tech knowledge, I asked them how they knew which horses to back, so to speak. Got a lot of mumbling around the table at that point.
When I mentioned that I felt that interoperability and open protocols, not specific platforms, were key, I swear I got a couple of dirty looks.
Oh, well, their loss.
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #71,217
12/28/02 11:27:33 AM
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Their loss indeed. Trade school attitude on their part.
Alex
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
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Post #71,177
12/27/02 10:42:08 PM
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*Cheer!*
Imric's Tips for Living- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #71,178
12/27/02 10:42:58 PM
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Well done!
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
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Post #71,179
12/27/02 10:43:13 PM
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Superb! Way to go, Tom!
Alex
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
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Post #71,181
12/27/02 10:46:11 PM
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Now polish up that tongue and go
once ya got the ticket you can then express what you actually think :-)
enjoy,
Bill
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Post #71,188
12/27/02 11:14:06 PM
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Congrats - and good luck
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
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Post #71,189
12/27/02 11:15:24 PM
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Very Nice
I used to work really close to there. Have a lot of fun! I'm right behind you!
-drl
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Post #71,203
12/28/02 12:25:10 AM
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Re: being right behind me
That explains that creepy feeling....
<grin><duck>
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #71,214
12/28/02 9:23:18 AM
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Yea !!! congrats
Christmas & good news - seem to go together (even this year) :-)
Cheers Doug
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Post #71,232
12/28/02 3:13:26 PM
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Do enjoy a small respite from
the deadly-dull Other TLA: the PhB
(EZ to slime Popus Academicus but at least - they aren't lying every minute..)
Gaudeamus Igitur y'all !!
Ashton
hearing a little Brahms in the \ufffdther, the umm
Academic Festival overture :-\ufffd
When the rich assemble to concern themselves with the business of the poor, it is called Charity. When the poor assemble to concern themselves with the business of the rich, it is called Anarchy.
-Paul Richards
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Post #71,250
12/28/02 5:59:06 PM
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A good suggestion
Apparently the student-to-teacher ratio at CSM graduate school is about 4 to 1. I'm looking forward to the personal attention.
From my own experience, my students do better in a small class.
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #71,279
12/28/02 11:39:44 PM
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That's a bad ratio! You need to pick a better major....
like physics!
Phyics undergrad ratio was roughly 1:1 for me (about 16 students in all four years & about 16 professors); smallest class was 2:1 (Quantum Optics), largest about 40:1 (intro physics -- and this included all my classes).
And, since we didn't have a graduate program, no TA's.
I imagine ratios in physics graduate programs are similar or even better.
On the serious side, you may want to consider getting into mechatronics and autonomous robotics -- that way you can test your machine learning work in the real world!
Best wishes,
Tony
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Post #71,428
12/30/02 4:35:00 AM
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Nice!
New Mexico Tech was almost that good for an undergrad by the time you hit senior year. It was about 6 to 1.
I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration.
Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns
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Post #71,711
12/31/02 9:47:56 AM
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Yup!
Actually, the largest junior/senior level class I had at Tech (a "brother school" of CSM) was 5:1 (course, that was in the Sterling era, where the total studen population was < 1K).
jb4
"They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink."
Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
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Post #71,326
12/29/02 4:12:34 PM
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Good news!
I am happy for you.
I tried to enroll in a local college, only rhe woman handling my enrollment and student loan had quit, and nobody told me when the loan came in, so it was returned to the Federal Government. The guy who took over for her, never bothered to call me and let me know that the loan was approved and came in. I keep trying to call that college and get the guy to talk to me, but he is never in, and they promise me he will call back but he never does. So no college for me, unless I pick a different one.
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Post #71,429
12/30/02 4:39:05 AM
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Its your fault
"I tried to enroll in a local college, only rhe woman handling my enrollment and student loan had quit, and nobody told me when the loan came in, so it was returned to the Federal Government. The guy who took over for her, never bothered to call me and let me know that the loan was approved and came in. I keep trying to call that college and get the guy to talk to me, but he is never in, and they promise me he will call back but he never does."
Nothing is ever your fault is it.
This is typical college behavior. If you want an education - you have to drag it out of them. You have to GO THERE or PHONE OFTEN (like daily) and generally make yourself a pest. Don't ever assume they'll call you because they don't.
Its a polling system - its not a callback kind of thing.
I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration.
Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns.
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Post #71,464
12/30/02 10:30:29 AM
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Gee must be my fault
it never is anyone else's fault is it? I mean something like doing their frelling job is something that I should harass them about on a daily basis, right?
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Post #71,433
12/30/02 5:18:36 AM
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Congratulations! Eh, you know what we think...
...about people who ...have a proper pointy hat with lots of letters after my name! , around here, right? :-)
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
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Post #71,482
12/30/02 10:49:43 AM
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That's 'hat', not 'head'
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #71,443
12/30/02 8:43:50 AM
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Doeds this mean ...
... we'll be experiencing a flood of bots in he near future?
Congrats, man. I only hope I get the chance someday.
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Post #71,485
12/30/02 10:50:20 AM
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Nah
I plan to use my powers for niceness.
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #71,460
12/30/02 10:11:15 AM
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That's good news.
Do they give you a hard hat with a flashlight on top?
Never mind, not the Colorado school in Mines. My bad.
Why should we ask our military to die for cheap oil when the rest of us aren't even being asked to get better mileage?
-[link|http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14107|Molly Ivins]
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Post #71,509
12/30/02 12:05:52 PM
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Congratulations!
Are you a professor yet, or that's in the future?
--
We have only 2 things to worry about: That
things will never get back to normal, and that they already have.
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Post #71,573
12/30/02 6:20:26 PM
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Re: Congratulations!
Right now I'm an instructor at a small technical college. (Well, I'm lead instructor for the computer programming department, for what it's worth.)
I teach both computer programming and data networking, in addition to whatever else is needed and fits with my background, such as project management, web site design, data communications and directory services.
I want to continue in Higher Ed, though, and that's just about impossible without a doctorate.
Of course, I wouldn't mind getting a gig at CSM, perhaps teaching undergraduates.
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #71,710
12/31/02 9:44:03 AM
12/31/02 9:44:33 AM
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Wow!
Very cool, Tom.
Have fun. Work hard. Learn to ski (you'll prolly never have a better opportunity to ski on better snow). Ignore everything you read written by Abe Kandel. (Explanation about that last item on request...)
jb4
"They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink."
Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
Edited by jb4
Dec. 31, 2002, 09:44:33 AM EST
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Post #71,722
12/31/02 10:40:54 AM
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Okay, I'll bite
Abe Kandel?
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #72,010
1/2/03 10:52:44 AM
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Re: Okay, I'll bite
A assistant professor at New Mexico Tech when I was there. Later heard of publishing out of the University of South Florida. Claims to be an expert in Artificial Intelligence (with the accent on the first syllable of the sentence).
jb4
"They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink."
Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
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Post #72,073
1/2/03 4:01:31 PM
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Found his Web site
[link|http://www.siam.org/vlp/kandel.htm|http://www.siam.org/vlp/kandel.htm]
(Damn, I love Mozilla! I just highlighted his name, right-clicked, selected 'Web Search for "Abe Kandel"' and a brand new page of Google links popped up.)
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #72,192
1/3/03 9:11:52 AM
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Yes, indeed!
Yes, you gotta love Mozilla!!!
And Harumph! Damn fool made his name at New Mexico Tech (NMIMT); didn't even have the decency to obtain his Ph(u)D there, at a shcool with a much better Ph.D CS program that UNM.
jb4
"They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink."
Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
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