I Fear
Monday, March 3, 2003
In spite of my best intentions and efforts, I have nothing to show for the second homework in the Evolutionary Computation class.
The homework problem was to write a Genetic Algorithm to schedule n individuals to n shifts, such that each individual gets the shift of highest priority thats available.
I worked on the GA for a long time. I worked on the problem representation and the evaluation function till I got them right, but my GA is nowhere near complete. So I cannot run the problem and evaluate fitnesses and so on.
I completed the project proposal, and the problem implementation for the Expert Systems class by 10 pm yesterday. i have been workin on the GA homework, the expert systems homework, the expert systems project, the parallel processing assignments, the cryptarray project proposal and the hardware random number generator evaluation over the past week.
Now my advisor wants the proposal’s final draft by day after tomorrow. The proposal is top priority because if we dont get the project approved and funded by the NSA, then I wont have any financial support starting fall. It takes the NSA about 6 months to evaluate a proposal and allot funds, So we have to submit the proposal by next monday. So , naturally I could not have done everything.
I dont know what Dr.Annie Wu is going to say about my not completing the assignment. She says int he handout that “code that does not compile gets a 0″. So no partial credit for my sleepless nights. i will end up losing 12.5% of credit for this course. Which means a ‘B’ overall, and if i dont get everything else perfect, then it will degenerate into a ‘C’.
I have learnt a lot, but on paper, a ‘C’ is just that, an indication of my inability. I hate grades, and having to work towards maximizing them.
This is the first time after I started my Ph.D. that I am not completing a task assigned to me. I feel terrible.
I will go and meet her now, and say the truth, and expect nothing more than a 0 for the assignment.
Sad part is, I love this course, and I doing very well in the class discussions, and my paper presentation went very well, I got a full score on that front. Shit happens, and thats it.
Filed by Carthik at 1:25 pm under Livejournal