Thursday, September 02, 2004
Life is not easy
I have been thinking hard about the research sub problem at hand. I did come up with a way we cluster given data into meaningful groups. Each group will have data items that are similar to other data items in that group. What I realized today is that there already has been this work done and published in a reputed journal.
Now it means I better catch with my reading and not loose focus on what other research in my area is because I might stumble upon something that has already been done. This paper of the work I was thinking about was published in 1999 and that means I am 5 years late to think about that approach.
Most of the research work has to have a foresight where people can get to know about your research and they find it current. It is one of the critteria of finding it significant.
On other note, I have been a big fan of using CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) and know the importance of versioning and backing up your work. It also is a good measure of tracking changes and I have started extensive usage for my research work. My advisor is extremely happy using it in the entire research group and asked me set it up for the entire group. He also sent email to all of us asking to get CVSized in terms of our projects. Now for other research guys in my group who have never worked with CVS or who have never worked in professional environment or who have no interest in switching from their nice little nest they call Microsoft, it very difficult concept to grasp. It is unfortunate that I have been trying to promote and support good things happening in my research group.
I wish we all guys could go out for picnic, I wish we all group janta can discuss our research problem and help each other out. Mostly if you have friends from your country, you don't care for someone else who doesn't belong to your country. I respect all the countries and wish for everyone accommodated when there are discussions going on. I hate when people start talking in their local regional language in front of the person who has no clue what is being said. It is embarrassing for that one person to just keep looking at faces. I do take care about such an issues but people seem to be less sensitive towards others in this matter.
Anyways, this is suppose to be my research talk and not personal gossip.
BTW, I could get to the point at the end of the day today where I can distinguish my work and in fact may be I will come up with a better clustering approach than the already existing one. I am not giving just yet....
Now it means I better catch with my reading and not loose focus on what other research in my area is because I might stumble upon something that has already been done. This paper of the work I was thinking about was published in 1999 and that means I am 5 years late to think about that approach.
Most of the research work has to have a foresight where people can get to know about your research and they find it current. It is one of the critteria of finding it significant.
On other note, I have been a big fan of using CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) and know the importance of versioning and backing up your work. It also is a good measure of tracking changes and I have started extensive usage for my research work. My advisor is extremely happy using it in the entire research group and asked me set it up for the entire group. He also sent email to all of us asking to get CVSized in terms of our projects. Now for other research guys in my group who have never worked with CVS or who have never worked in professional environment or who have no interest in switching from their nice little nest they call Microsoft, it very difficult concept to grasp. It is unfortunate that I have been trying to promote and support good things happening in my research group.
I wish we all guys could go out for picnic, I wish we all group janta can discuss our research problem and help each other out. Mostly if you have friends from your country, you don't care for someone else who doesn't belong to your country. I respect all the countries and wish for everyone accommodated when there are discussions going on. I hate when people start talking in their local regional language in front of the person who has no clue what is being said. It is embarrassing for that one person to just keep looking at faces. I do take care about such an issues but people seem to be less sensitive towards others in this matter.
Anyways, this is suppose to be my research talk and not personal gossip.
BTW, I could get to the point at the end of the day today where I can distinguish my work and in fact may be I will come up with a better clustering approach than the already existing one. I am not giving just yet....
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