psyche

Watching Federer. They like his footwork. Jim (Philbin, fencing coach) likes footwork. He draws parallels with boxing. Personal trainer (Patrick Sago - awesome guy) is an amateur boxer. Lulz.

The Imperial taster was cool. We had lectures - some cool AI. Unfortunately they missed out the crypto talk but it was pretty good nonetheless. Did some programming. Once Vivan had plugged in my monitor (Dr Zetie’s report was right, I realised in shock: I do give up easily) the exercises were okay. They were more an exercise in figuring out the convoluted documentation and Linux keyboard shortcuts (Mac OS X has taught me some faux-Linux bad habits, I think).

I don’t really know why it was called the future of computing, but both the talks were essentially on AI (face tracking and emotion recognition, and then computational creativity - the Painting Fool). They linked the painting to the emotion thing - I’d already seen that in New Scientist or something similar, I think. I’d also seen the augmented reality thing they showed in the intro talk. The guy spoke very quietly but the videos he showed us were definitely ones I’d seen on YouTube - tracking the environment and then putting virtual items in. Lain. Lulz.

Pretty good. Vivan reckoned people there were smarter than the ones at the Royal Holloway one, although one of them who’d been to the RH one denied that he’d been when asked, so perhaps he wasn’t so smart after all (???). Java seems cool. Linux isn’t as bad as I thought.

Lulz.

Pax