Yes... yes, I'm definitely sick. o_O (and hacking!)

Decided to stay home again today, and over slept, as usual. And what do you know, now I've got a headache and feeling kinda dizzy. Not to mention my usual muscle ache in every friggin place on my body. Yet I'm still not quite sick enough to justify not working on my project. I wonder if I'm just imagining myself being sick or that I'm a workaholic.

Either way, the little part I'm working on right now (which I'm not allowed to talk about in details thanks to my contracts and my very paranoid supervisor) is somewhat working. But not perfectly. I hacked it yesterday to make it better, and I THOUGHT I have a better way of hacking it. No I don't. I thought I do, but I don't. So right now it's back to yesterday's methods, which isn't very robust, and I would really rather do what I coined as "dynamic hacking", meaning put in an arbitary threshold, which actually changes according to some other arbitary measurement. That's how I passed my Master degree anyway. It almost sound legit enough to be put in a paper and say it's an equation. Heck, the paper I'm working on does something similar anyway, just not enough on it.

My friend and I were just talking about the whole engineering degree, how all we ever do is hacking. And it's true. He's doing his PhD in robotics, and a lot of it is hacking. Really. And a lot of the papers I read has this "trail and error threshold" which of coz differ from signal and signal. They still get published. That's why I proposed to use this "dynamic hacking" business, to actually calibrate the threshold on the go. (Some may want to call it an adpative threshold, but it's not quite the same. It's not. You know what I mean.) And maybe I can actualyl get my thesis done just by that!

Right now though: I can't really think, and my body hurts!! Tea makes me better though. And rightnow I'm drinking a nice cup of Earl Grey (which does NOT taste like soap!) and trying to perfect my hack.

Life of an engineering postgard is fun like that...