Dec 12 2005
Hat and Thesis
Not the best day ever. I started off by loosing my hat. Was in a coffee shop for lunch after running some errands this morning, and I left without taking my hat with me. When I went back to get it 5 mins later it was gone. Someone just got a new hat for xmas! I went all the way to Canada to get that hat, and I’m going to miss it!
Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, today I started on my corrections. Not exactly the most enjoyable pastime! Actually they don’t look too bad, some bits of it are going to be a bit complex. but nothing looks too impossible. Mostly its restructuring and clarification, with a few additions.
So here is what I have to do, written as something of a todo list. I’ve not gone into too much details as I have recently started to do various bits of work using the XP mantra of plan as you go. This is a high level plan, and the more low level details will come along as I go.
1) Structure. I need to swap two chapters, and do some merging on the introductory chapters, and even remove one of the later chapters
2) Math. The math needs to be made more precise. A lot of the math is not very clear, but ways to fix this were discussed in the viva
3) Introduction. The introduction is going to have a slightly different structure and emphasis. Ch 1&2 are to be combined, and Ch 3 is to be split into a new Ch2 and Ch3
4) Theory: The relation between my theory and the math presented needs to be explained. Both the new and the existing bits of theory need to be clearly marked
5) Experimental: I need to compare my work to one more piece of existing work, and present my existing results in an additional set of metrics
6) Related work: I have seven things to add
7) Conclusions: Updated to reflect the changes, and re-iterate a clear statement of what’s new.
And of course, various spelling and grammar mistakes :)
I’m going to start on the biggest changes, and then work my way down to the smaller ones. So step one is to do the restructuring, the math (which is most important) followed by the theory (without witch the math is meaningless) Then I will see what seems like the biggest thing in need of attention.
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