Thursday, February 28, 2008

A.I. is Awesome!!

Taking the A.I. module this sem, the first A.I. ends up a failure. It's just a simple A.I. yet i'm struggling with it. I really admire people who devote their time to developing A.I. for people to play with.

When computer weren't that common 15 years ago, I used to play many multi-player games myself. Mahjong, Big2, Chinese Chess etc. it's gets really boring since I always have knowledge of the whole environment and can manipulate the results of the game as I wished.

With A.I., I finally can stop playing all the players. At least I get to play against some "players" though they are just algorithms that use probability to determine their next move.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Presentation Commences

Presentations are fun and exciting, yet scary and stressful to have..

Prior to presentations, one has to do much researching, then after collecting all the information needed, one has to start his preparation for the actual presentation. The most common way is to make a powerpoint slide.

My first presentation of the year is a self-learning assignment. The class is divided into six groups, and each group assigned a topic where we go read up on. This will brand us as the experts in that particular topic, giving us the credentials to lecture on that topic. Therefore, apart from saying what is on the slideshow, you will have to add in explanations to make things more understandable.

The second presentation is relatively easier, just having the prepare the solution to one of the tutorial question on powerpoint slides then present before the class. As the answers aren't supposed to be that long, and the group size of six is large, each person just has to say a few lines of text. With all the explanations on the slide, nothing will go wrong. Two more of this sort of presentation still to come.

Two more other presentations will be the most terrifying of all. Even though it's just a 3-5 min talk, it will be done in front of the class and a camera. I always get very tensed up in front of camera, cause I'm scared of getting sucked into the camera, lol..

Thursday, February 14, 2008

道不同不相为谋

我已经觉得很烦闷。虽然我对工作上的事情不是很挑剔,这两年我以觉得非常懊恼。既然我们的理想不同,工作方式也不同,为何我们还是硬要组成同一队。


我非常讨厌其他人在我做事时,对我说“没可能。”,“办不到。”,这类的话。我痛恨你的眼高手低,每天只会想着几个礼拜后才得交的作业,但明天需要交的,你却还没做。


嗨!真是苦恼。