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Facial Recognition

February 26th, 2007
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The seems to be a new bebo toy which has definitely gone to the top my my list of “Things to waste a bit of time of the net”

MyHeritage.com’s celebrity facial recognition is a lot of fun to play with and I am well pleased to see that I have a 75% similarity to Drew Carey. Undoubtedly the highlight of my week! :-)

See my results at Bebo

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Modular Karma

February 2nd, 2007
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At the start of the week after experiencing what promised to be two really good subjects: Formal Methods, which deals with rigorously specifying software behaviour through mathematical proof; and Artifical Intelligence, which has so far dealt with what we already know about propositional and predicate logic; I have felt as though these course are really going to compliment each other with regards to the application of theory.

I naively thought at this point that I was in for a very academic semester, however, I underestimated the karmic balance at the heart of every timetable, for the other course I enrolled in was High Performance Computing. A deceptively uninteresting module.

I have come to accept that is is unlikely to score three very good course in one semester and as I look back over the past 3 year I know that I can name one module per term that lowered the standards for attendance on my part.

I maintain, despite this, that I will aspire to attend lectures this term, I will complete assignments in a timely fashion and I will enjoy the overall semester.

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Mornings

February 1st, 2007
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0645 I wake up with the intention of getting the 8:30 bus into Belfast
0647 Stare at ceiling
0705 Decide to get whichever bus is after the 8:30 bus. It turns out I don’t want to arrive into Town only to waste a couple of hours before lectures
0720 Roll out of bed and shuffle over to the computer. I need to check the bus timetables online to see what time the next bus is at
0725 It’s at 9:45 and that will get me into Belfast at about 10:30. Not too early, not too late.
0730 I open my Webcomics bookmarks to give me something to read for a few minutes. There’s nothing new so I content myself with flicking back through old XKCD.com comics and the blag
0830 Still reading xkcd. I suddenly realise an hour has passed and I have to hurriedly get ready and leave the house in time for the bus.
0835 I proceed to have my breakfast, have a shower, get washed, dressed, pack the stuff I need and reach the bus in time. There was never really that much pressure.

This applies to most mornings, I’m lucky enough this semester to not have any lectures before twelve o’clock, which gives me the freedom to choose; will I appear in the lab early, enthusiastic and ready to take on the day? or will I sleep in, take time over breakfast and casually arrive just in time?

Not really a choice at all.

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