Why a work blog?
I'm starting a blog that will just be for writing about my work. There are really three purposes this should serve:
- Practice writing about what I do, for a technical audience broader than just the people in my lab or at the more specialised conferences in my field. Ultimately my work will be a lot more worthwhile if I can go to a psychology conference and convince that audience that they can use the data I've gathered from computer models, but this calls for a different sort of communication skill than going to an AI conference where everyone is familiar with the basic assumptions we make.
- Hold myself to account by giving myself set targets with work that's free-form enough that it's far too easy to drift for a few weeks at a time, and reporting on progress. This is especially important to me because I'll be collaborating remotely with my advisor for a few years, during which time I won't be having weekly lab meetings and such things to keep me on track.
- Hopefully get some discussion going to get feedback on half-baked ideas and pre-draft versions of papers.
At some point soon I'll post a brief about me / about my work
introduction, but for now I just want to get started. For now here is a rather out of date page for my research group, which will soon be replaced, but at least gives some background: the Dynamics of Adaptive Behavior Lab.
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