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Saturday, Feb 28, 2009 - 22:18 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Need Number Four Fulfiled

Another Friday, another visit to my Gmail inbox...

"OFFER OF ADMISSION AND RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP (SEMESTER 1, AY2009/2010)

It is a pleasure to inform you that you have been awarded the NUS research scholarship with admission into the Doctor of Philosophy offered by the School of Computing, Dept of Computer Science, National University of Singapore."


Darn. Google does know all (see previous post).

That's that then, since my second choice (in terms of probability of getting in) Stanford had already answered in the negative, and I had not the heart to reject them; And I had managed to apply to no others, no thanks in part to the continuing confusion over my GRE scores, and also my unwillingness to donate unnecessarily to universities with billion-dollar endowments via application fees.

Realistically, I suppose I could pad my record with some work experience and perhaps a Masters' at a U.S. institution before applying again, but heck it, life's too short for that.

That's the next three years at least settled then.

Something on economics, which seems appropriate as my formal study of it will enter an indefinite hiatus very soon - A recent Straits Times article "Of Black-Scholes and black swans", brings up the relation between economics and physics, raised here a few months ago.

The main insinuation, that "...Any optimal solution, if there is one, is quickly perturbed by tiny changes in the system. Equilibria are largely irrelevant and small changes can have large effects.", downplays the predictive powers of textbook economics, but given the non-isolable and non-testable nature of macroeconomic hypothesis, I suppose the market for economists, like philosophers, will not dry up in a hurry...

Spent a few hours just reading O. Henry's collection of short stories, The Four Million. Most of those who have passed through the Singaporean education system in recent times should at least recall The Gift of the Magi, which was adapted into the Chinese syllabus. The translation does little justice to the original. My favourite of the lot would still be Mammon and the Archer, though.

$1610.25/$1900 as United scraped out three more points against Blackburn. Today's pick are the conquerors of Real Madrid, who visit the Riverside:

$50 on Liverpool to beat Middlesbrough (at 1.57)

Fun fact of the day: Fixture-for-fixture, United are actually six points ahead of their point total for the equivalent fixtures last season, while Liverpool, despite their boom, are actually two points off. Make what of that you will.




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