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Friday, Feb 20, 2009 - 04:00 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Song of the Day:
"If you like Pina Coladas/And gettin' caught in the rain..."
The Pina Colada Song (wiki)
(strangely heartwarming)


Football last Sunday (with Hattrick Alvin and zy), where I was once again "out-lated" despite making it a point to be late by half an hour. On the FYP front, I think I will have to reimplement some stuff; Calmed myself by doing some fun coding of a crude related posts function for this blog. If only research were that relaxing too...

Scholes back in rip-roaring form as he volleyed a stopped-yet-unstoppable goal direct from a corner, pinged thirty-metre passes with ridiculous accuracy, and even put in several good tackles against Fulham (Mr. Ham lost his bet, btw). And did the vendors at the NUS Central Forum bother to sell his keychain? Nahhhh...


Where is Number 18, Uncle?


The vendor's loss, I suppose. Or perhaps they were all sold out. Then again, no Ronaldo either, so they aren't trying too hard to make money.

Attended the 14th NUROP Congress on Wednesday as a poster presenter. The dress code swung between tie and no tie, but finally it was another of those uncomfortable half-choked days with a strip of fabric wound around my neck. Obtained a lanyard to rebuild my collection, and a nifty programme booklet, but the attendance at the Engineering Auditorium was... quite a bit lower than what I expected, despite well over 300 projects in total being completed.

The Plenary session was interesting enough, though for Chemistry one ("Enantioselective Protonation of Itaconimides Catalyzed by Chiral Bicyclic Guanidine") I was ashamed to be unable to follow much of the proceedings. Enantiomeric excess did, at least, remind me of entropy.

I suppose it would be fair to say that most students wouldn't be able to find appropriate questions to ask, since the stuff would be out of reach of those not in the correct field to ask about specifics, and general queries might be just too trivial. The emcee was prepared with his own backups, of course.

The Engineering presentation reminded me of my passing interest in robotic motion - is it really that hard for a robot to walk (or rather, run) in a dynamic human-like fashion, instead of conservatively cycling through multiple stable states? That, and the poster I saw about NUS's Team ROPE. My first thoughts were, if the body structure (and weight distributions) are known, joint movement control is sufficiently quick and fine-grained, and sensory feedback is likewise fast, why not?

Did talk to a few people, including a visiting A*STAR researcher, during the short poster presentation, and I have to say it is an art to infer whether someone wants the guided tour, so to speak, or just read the poster, thankyouverymuch (which is more my own style actually).

Here's to a good longish sleep for once.



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