Well..It's been a while (if you measure "time" by what's happened in the past week). I'll try, in the next string of characters, to give you somewhat of an account of my life here in Bristol.
How should I start? How about with Winky? I like cooking for myself. It's cheap and never dull. I've had many sandwiches, as well as some crazy cheap mashed potato/tuna/corn/cheese mess that was pretty clutch. Well I'm tired of talking about Winky (Winkworth). It's a fun close play to live from campus.
Here's a little of the places I go.
So I'm been asked to describe the classes I'm taking in a little detail. So here goes the cake and the pudding (without the sauce)..
1. Database. Dr. Julian Gough. 3rd Year Computer Science. This class is pretty cool so far. We get to use the Superfamily database that he created. It's a lot of fun. I'll learning MySQL and Oracle and general database theory in the class. It looks like it'll have a manageable workload.
2. Computational Complexity. Dr. Richard Jozsa. 3rd Year Computer Science. This class gives my mind a titty-twister, if that's possible. It's about expressing everything in a turing-machine-like environment and assessing how hard all of the problems are. This is an epic class and the professor is happy to no end. This is my wildcard class in terms of difficulty.
3. Symbols, Patterns, and Signals. Dr. Andrew Calway (my favorite professor...seems like a genius of a man just by having some one-on-one time with him). 2nd Year Computer Science. I get to learn Matlab in this class...Can you believe it? It looks pretty interesting. We'll be learning how face-recognition works and how to test for likeness between photos and the theory behind other means of data comparison.
4. Intro to Philosophy. A bunch of professors. 1st Year Philosophy I'm going to record one of these and put them online. This is some interesting stuff. Right now we're on ethics and metaethics. Not much practical use, but it is interesting wrapping your mind around well-argued falsities. The work load will be minimal here. 1st Year classes are centered around giving the students time to drink rather than study it seems.
I'll also insert a few pictures.
Here's my house:
Here's Park Row, a big hill:
Here's a cathedral about 100 yards from my house:
5 comments:
Nice one, Troy.
Gives your mind a titty twister, eh? That image goes well with the music (which, btw, a great multimedia idea I might test out).
You might be giving people the wrong idea with all these snowy pics that we're studying in Siberia, not Bristol.
If I didn't know any better...
Eric makes a good point. It doesn't snow here (hardly) ever. Today was treat.
Symbols, Patterns, and Symbols? Hmmmm? Does that mean that the class is 2 parts symbols and 1 part patterns? Looks like an excellent mix of classes. Challenging, too.
Tronski, sounds baller. You've already finished C!!
I'm jealous that you will be learning Matlab. And I don't know why.
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