big pimpin' with science


I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Hey, check out this wicked gargoyle who lives in the long and winding basement of the Carolinum.



Today was probably the most "exciting" conf day because (a) the talks were more or less about stuff that I do, and (b) I had to stand next to my poster and tell people about my research. I don't know why, but telling people about my research makes me want to hurl. Now, I actually do think my research so far is pretty good, and i was excited to people were actually asking questions. But for some reason, explaining/selling my work to experts literally makes my tummy hurt. Maybe it's just all the time I've spent with this work, and the fact that I know it inside out, especially all the gaps and shortcomings. I don't know...I mean, it's pretty good work, but ...yeah.

The irony is, it actually went pretty well. I talked to two "experts in my field," and I had stuff to say. --But I was still embarrassed to the bone, kind of in the same way as when you find out someone "likes" you and you don't feel the same way. Thank heaven, though, that the bossman made me do all that stuff with parametric resonance before I left, because even though it's still totally inconclusive, I suddenly found myself badass-ly saying stuff like, "Well, it seems obvious to me that having a parameter vary on the same frequency as the natural frequency of the model itself would give you a parametric instability. And even though the extended filter may never be operationally feasible, this result has implications for all tangent-linear-based algorithms."
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..I know! After I said that, I was like, holy crap.

Posted: Wed - April 20, 2005 at 04:48 PM        

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