Yesterday I got a friendly reminder in e-mail
from the professor of the Machine Learning course about the programming
assignment which was due today. So, I started late last night to work with the
program (that’s called Octave by the way) and that was too late. The first
exercise I submitted was good but the second one, about implementing code to
plot data kept showing an empty window instead of a nice graph. Today I had
another lecture about neuroanatomy and I decided to give the ML assignment
another go after I came home. There are 58,000 people enrolled in this course
(Worldwide) and the discussion forum was endless. Although I found some helpful
treads in the forum, my trials were again not fruitful and then I realized that
I have quite a lot going on at the moment. It is so much easier not to feel
stressed when things are going smooth. That makes me feel strong.
However, I could not let go the assignment and
was struggling against the deadline instead of going to the grocery shop and
prepare dinner. Again and again I kept checking and changing the lines of code.
I am just not a computer programmer yet, despite the little experience I have
from working on my website. In the meanwhile my eldest and youngest daughter
were removing the laminate floor in the attic AND did the grocery shopping AND
prepared a delicious meal (again!).
When we drove together to the condolence
reception later, I declared to them with
my voice still hoarse from the cold that I wouldn’t put all my cards on ML
because that is just an octave too high at the moment.
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