callaynatara (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} callaynatara) wrote,@ 2007-12-16 02:16:00 |
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So maybe I don't hate computer science as much as I thought I did...
This is the coolest idea I have ever heard of. And I don't even know if it would work:
Self-Adaptive Websites.
I mean, admittedly, the promotion/demotion portion of it has already been done --- it's called "most popular links" on most sites with huge amounts of articles. But rigging the entire navigation to adapt to users' needs? That would be cool.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if Google's already doing it somehow.
I'm not sure what it says when the projects in the CS department I'm finding more interesting than the ones located in the Technical Communications department (which is what I'm intending to apply to). One would assume this would mean I should apply to CS instead. But, God, the things I have to relearn again! I can't even remember CPS 104 anymore. :/
But they have an AI research section! With neural systems and intelligent user interfaces that depend on context-sensitive environments! (Okay, I can't find the link for the context-sensitive part. Maybe that was Carnegie Mellon instead.)
I'd forgotten that I'd found AI really really spiffy cool ever since high school. I remember, there was some adaptive AI project going on in the neighboring college that once presented at my school (good old science and math school, yup, the memories). I remember talking with my advisor how cool it had been to hear about it. She suggested I try to do my internship with them. I thought that was impossible (still don't know why), and instead opted to do a self-study with the Western Civ teacher about St. Augustine's opinion on the origins of evil. (Don't ask. I really don't know why I did it, other than to do something that *wasn't* math and science related.)
Nowadays, I'm really regretting that I didn't take the AI class while I was still at Duke. Maybe I might have enjoyed my actual classes better had I actually taken classes I liked as opposed to treating it like a giant goal list I had to complete in four years. Of course, not having the Curriculum 2000 matrix to fulfill probably would have helped too.
And now? Who knows. I suppose I could apply for the Computer Science & Engineering (see? it's actually in the engineering school!) grad program... but I'm rather far behind and out of the loop. And it's highly competitive --- according to the site, it accepts maybe 10-15% of its applicants each year.
...
I'm starting to suspect that my aversion to competition is slowly killing me.
Wow. That went angsty, real fast.
This is the coolest idea I have ever heard of. And I don't even know if it would work:
Self-Adaptive Websites.
I mean, admittedly, the promotion/demotion portion of it has already been done --- it's called "most popular links" on most sites with huge amounts of articles. But rigging the entire navigation to adapt to users' needs? That would be cool.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if Google's already doing it somehow.
I'm not sure what it says when the projects in the CS department I'm finding more interesting than the ones located in the Technical Communications department (which is what I'm intending to apply to). One would assume this would mean I should apply to CS instead. But, God, the things I have to relearn again! I can't even remember CPS 104 anymore. :/
But they have an AI research section! With neural systems and intelligent user interfaces that depend on context-sensitive environments! (Okay, I can't find the link for the context-sensitive part. Maybe that was Carnegie Mellon instead.)
I'd forgotten that I'd found AI really really spiffy cool ever since high school. I remember, there was some adaptive AI project going on in the neighboring college that once presented at my school (good old science and math school, yup, the memories). I remember talking with my advisor how cool it had been to hear about it. She suggested I try to do my internship with them. I thought that was impossible (still don't know why), and instead opted to do a self-study with the Western Civ teacher about St. Augustine's opinion on the origins of evil. (Don't ask. I really don't know why I did it, other than to do something that *wasn't* math and science related.)
Nowadays, I'm really regretting that I didn't take the AI class while I was still at Duke. Maybe I might have enjoyed my actual classes better had I actually taken classes I liked as opposed to treating it like a giant goal list I had to complete in four years. Of course, not having the Curriculum 2000 matrix to fulfill probably would have helped too.
And now? Who knows. I suppose I could apply for the Computer Science & Engineering (see? it's actually in the engineering school!) grad program... but I'm rather far behind and out of the loop. And it's highly competitive --- according to the site, it accepts maybe 10-15% of its applicants each year.
...
I'm starting to suspect that my aversion to competition is slowly killing me.
Wow. That went angsty, real fast.
