research complete, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Well, okay, I’m not Dr Brochu just yet. There’s a list of minor revisions and some paperwork ahead of me. But on Friday, November 26, 2010, I successfully defended my thesis and passed my doctoral exam, so the days of gut-churning anxiety are finally over. It’s disturbing…
academia
Page, count!
thesis page count, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Holy crap. It’s 2:13AM on a Friday night, I’ve got Mogwai playing on the stereo, and I think I might actually kind of be done writing my thesis. I feel… odd. (Well, done until Nando and my committee read it and tell me to go revise…
[Brochu, Brochu and de Freitas, 2010]
I’m a little late in posting this, but I managed to get accepted to the 2010 Symposium on Computer Animation with my paper, “A Bayesian Interactive Optimization Approach to Procedural Animation Design”! I’ve added the pre-print PDF to my publications page, and there’s even a video, which explains the whole thing in under five minutes…
a return
phantasy of phinishng a phd, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. So for those keeping track at home, I took leave of my position at Worio last month to go back to work on my PhD full-time. I’d been either a non-student or part-time for the last two years, which seemed kind of incredible to…
thesis status = begun
So I’ve officially started writing my PhD thesis. I’ve downloaded the latex template and written an outline and everything. My typical thesis-writing day goes like this: 9 AM Bike to the lab. 10 AM Procrastinate. 11 AM Procrastinate. 12 PM Stress out about procrastinating. Man, that was a long bike ride into school. I’ll be…