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June 20, 2006
Facelift
I've finally got around to designing my own templates for this site, instead of just tinkering mildly with the supplied one. I'm fairly pleased with how it looks, but of course that doesn't guarantee that anyone else will be, or that it will look good on someone else's computer. So if anything looks weird, or [especially] is hard to read, please let me know, and if possible please mention what browser & operating system you're using.
February 12, 2005
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 For now here is a rather out of date page for my research group, which will soon be replaced, but at least gives some background: the Dynamics of Adaptive Behavior Lab.