Saket Vora

I actually went to my statistical signal processing class for the first time in a month today. I’ve lately just been watching the lectures online. And I was reminded at how little I understand of the material. Meanwhile, an Indian guy in the 4th row was telling the professor “I’m not convinced by your explanation that this is true.” Jeez.

I spent about two hours re-watching two lectures and looking over the sections in the course reader before spending two hours in the TA office hours. Helped a little bit. The TA spent 30 minutes trying to solve part b of question 5, and wasn’t getting anywhere. You can guess at how that bodes well for me.

Spent about 4 hours on this class’s homework tonight. Didn’t finish a single problem. I just tried to understand two problems, but I just don’t know whether I’m formulating these questions correctly or the mathematical way to finish their solutions. Every week this it feels like an exercise in futility.

Meanwhile, Vista is proving to be the absolute abysmal piece of crap it is. If a program happens to stop responding, Vista decides that the entire OS should lock up. No, you don’t get to open the Task Manager and try to shut the unresponsive program down. You need to hard restart your machine. Oh, all you wanted to do is open a web browser and play a mp3 at the same time? Too bad. And did you hear the news? The new service pack for Windows XP is supposed to make it performance twice as Vista. Even worse? I’m using Vista Ultimate. This is supposed to be the best version! What horrors are the other poor souls who have degraded version of Vista going through? Sigh. The highlight today was having some chevre cheese (goat’s cheese) with Triscuits this evening. That and a bowl of rice was my dinner.