Dan Mayer's Blog

Well I am back from vegas. It was a good time, but I am sick, which lead to a problem since I am supposed to do two or three interviews this week. I have lost my voice, I dont feel to bad but loosing my voice is bad timing. I will hope for its return.

I think i partied and had enough fun to last me the rest of the school year, as I get things togher and find a job. hehe anyways good times....

interesting thoughts... going on in my head through out the day...

well... i have basically lost my voice entirely right now....

I have an interview tomorrow morning at 10:30

and another on thursday afternoon...

I dont really feel bad, but I can't talk.....

this is some bad timing.

Well I finished my first interview. I think it went ok. They are mostly looking for business people, but who knows. My voice was a little weak, but I was able to ask questions and answer everything. I am sure it hurt me a little bit but oh well. Now I need to stay quite and not talk until I see google which should first be wendsday night and then again thursday for my interview.

Problem is hitachi is having a social event tonight to mingle and talk with all of the possible recruits. I cant go because I cant try to talk over all the voices in Old C's and I am sure skipping that will make me a little easier to forget as well.

onward ho right.

I got my voice back just in time for my big interview tomorrow. Wish me luck...

thanks

Warning: This sounds like I am upset and I am really not, I am just wondering and pondering on the fact that we really know very little about what makes us happy. I am truly highly excited about recent events that have occured in my life.

Why does it seem that when we are really happy or celebrating, we strive to be closer to stupidity. When people are really excited they tend to get drunk and then enjoy some of the simplest pleasures, like dancing, singing, eating, rides, and sex. The most pleasure causing thing in our lives as most people think is sex, which is also on of the most animalistic traits left in humans. As humans we have strived for centuries to define ourselves better than animals, on a different level than everything else alive on the planet. When it comes to take time to enjoy life we still only rely on the most simple and animalistic pleasure though eating, drinking, sex, and sleep.

So does that mean in the end we are all truly envious of the simple, easy, and uneducated. We work hard and learn many things so we will have time to wallow in simple pleasures? As our lives have become more complex has it truly brought more meaning to life? We go through our work and our jobs, and we try to feel important, but all we have changed is how we live, where we live, and who we know.

I guess when i thought i was really slacking a bit to much at school i have been working to hard on accident yet again. I got back two tests today, and there were two A's for tests. So that is always nice, but I really need to study up on my AI for my AI class...

Here is a painting of my friend Matt that I started a few weeks ago. I didnt get around to finishing it until today though. So anyways I wish i would have finished up with some parts of it a little better but over all I still like it which is nice.

Sorry there has been no updates and no new code posted for awhile. In fact comments were broken for the last couple months. Well I have fixed the comments and will slowly be getting back into some of the coding stuff. I have been busy with my job hunt, which seems to be going pretty well, but I dont want to jinx it.

I have been doing some interesting stuff in my AI course and learning alot, we have been working with Agents and Probablistic Inference... We are now doing Utility funtions and feedback learning systems, which is pretty cool. I wish i knew more about knowlege representation. Since coding up the problems takes me so long in part because i dont know how to represent all of the data for the problems. Oh well all is going well and I am learning, and I guess that is what that matters. The concepts I get and the coding I can figure out with time.

well things are all headed in the right direction and seem to be going pretty well. Lets just hope for the best and hope I can focus and make it until I hear an answer... yes i am vague right now, but i dont know if i should be publishing anything about what is going on so i am doing the vague thing on purpose.

It is interesting and hopefully will work out great.

AI stuff is keeping me busy and currently crashing my computer as well... fun huh.... hehe

we truly live in some scary troubled times... I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight and I dont understand why and how things like this can happen... Some of it I agree with other points not so much, but I can say it is horrible how much people are profiting off this war, we shouldnt allow any companies to profit from reconstruction, it should be done as a at cost or fixed minimal profit...

People are dying on all sides of this issue and none of the normal every day people in their country or ours want to be dying.

CU is trying to teach its students something new... Censorship and restricting free speech. The whole culture around college and party is getting out of control, now if you have 4 drinks in one night your binge drinking... thats bad... but To my knowledge and all things i have seen about the past people have been going out and drinking six packs and more since forever in college. Want to put a negative term on dangerous over drink great, but realize the people that have died this year havent been having the 4 or 5 that makes them a binge drinker... They have been having between 30 and 40 drinks in one night! That is Binge drinking... 4 or 5 is a normal college night out at the bars!

Anyways students that talked about this and drinking on campus were sent nasty letters from the adminisatration warning them not to talk to the papers with information like that. They also sent letters to the parents of those students. So I will say Screw you CU, telling all the students that we are supposed to be a walking advertisement. We know about the actual culture and life around campus and we can tell people how it is. CU who wont sell beer during any sporting event of course has specail boxes where rich doners can drink during the game.

So want to hear about CU's attempts at censorship read here. I think CU should just stop supporting an athletic administration that supports sexism and then maybe i will worry about bad mouthing a schools alcohol policies.

I just watched Mr. Smith goes to washington. I think it is a really good movie. For people of my generation you have seen spoofs of it and other references to it so sometime you should go rent the original. It is worth the watch...

What I found really amusing was that was made sometime way back like the 50 or 60s and they thought politics were completely corrupted and destroyed back then. Think about how corrupt and compromised everything must be by now.

I mean when bills aren't about single issues and anything can be tacked onto a bill. A bill for food relief can carry bridges road repair and all sorts of other irrelevant amendments. How about limiting the size and scope of a bill so that nothing may be added in that isnt directly related to the original intention. Then you can actually vote on whether something is right or wrong... Now how many bad things you must compromise to let slide through in order to get something nessary passed through.

Anyways i guess it is just all the election stuff being around me all the time I am getting to political lately. Well soon that will be over and I am sure I will get back on to ranting on other things.

Until next time. adios.

right now is a rediculous up and down period of time. It seems every time I turn around I am excited about life or terrified about what will happen in the long run. That is ok I guess so long as I can relax and settle down again fairly soon. Otherwise I may just have a heart attack... hehe

On a side note, I am once again playing broomball possibly one of the greatest games ever created (next to squash hockey of course). Broomball is like playing ice hockey, but you have smaller sticks, play with a ball, and wear no ice skates. Now if you imagine many people running around and falling all over the place in shoes... you will surely realize how wonderfull this game is. hehe perhaps i wil have someone come and record some of a game so that I can place a video of this wonderfull sport online... I really like hockey it is a good time. Long as i am not just watching it...

I am back and there is an odd feeling of peace, nervousness, and excitement. Hopefully i can force myself to study and get the things done that I really need to get working on.

I still have no halloween costume, I am supposed to have one by tonight... any ideas?