Maryna started reading this book by Rodger Penrose: "The Emporer's New Mind". She was amazed at how closely related Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) is to Philosophy alla Plato, De Carte, et al. I was very pleased that she is taking an interest in my field, not that I'm a nazi about it. I'm perfectly happy with her intellectual abilities, and even though we might never have a meaningful discussion about first order logics, she could lecture me for hours about renessance artist. Non the less, it is very cool that she is reading this book. She is already beginning to see why my eyes light up when discussing great topics in Computer Science, and this is a joy for me.
Dr. Paprzycki killed my desire to write academic papers - at least for a while. It was good that he was working with me on my Clustering idea, but it was a huge disappointment that he was trying to work the angle. He is always trying to work the angle, trying to turn me, trying to get me to devote my life to his allegence and his project. There are various aspects of the system that I find somewhat interesting, but I am not interested in the project as a whole. I can only follow where my energy goes. At the same time, I have an urge lately to contribute, unfortunately, work has been kicking my arse - limiting my available energy and willingness to sit in front of a computer out side of the job.
On a similar note, I noticed that I have been reading less (in general), but desiring to produce some programs. I feel confident that within six months I will have a very descent repatoire of programming examples. Some in NASL, some in Carbon, some in Perl, and perhaps some in Java. I feel like it is about time to add another bullet to my CV.
