{"id":288,"date":"2007-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2020-04-12T19:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:45:37","slug":"february-10-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/2007\/february-10-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"February 10, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> The crunch is on! My thesis must be finished by March 5th. I&#8217;ve got a new title now: &#8220;Automatically Determining Consequences of Unexpected Events.&#8221; Not exactly related to what I want to do, robotics, but hey, it was a paid topic so I took it. Now that my first three chapters are being reviewed, I finally started the code&#8230;let&#8217;s see&#8230;Thursday I think it was. I have the model pretty much completely designed, but I decided against writing it in case it changes while I code. I now have 800 lines of C++ code so far, thanks to forcing myself to write comments as I code and the marvels of modern IDEs and tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\">Visual Assist X<\/a>. I must admit, the coding is quite a bit more fun than writing the thesis. Oh, on a slightly unrelated note, Cameron and I came up with a thesis roadmap to a Lord of the Rings analogy. For a quick sample: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thesis topic decided: Inherit the One Ring <\/li>\n<li>Successfully defended: Dropping the One Ring <\/li>\n<li>Graduation: Boarding the boat <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p\/>\n<p> Yes, that does make me an official dork. On a completely unrelated note, I am saddened to hear that Jackson will not be directing the Hobbit. I hope the director who climbs on board will do as well a job as he did with Lord of the Rings. OK, enough procrastinating, back to coding my thesis.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crunch is on! My thesis must be finished by March 5th. I&#8217;ve got a new title now: &#8220;Automatically Determining&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old","tag-old"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}