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Darwinbots as a Graduate Study
shvarz:
--- Quote ---one more thing: GRADUATE WORK OWNS! You get payed for studying what ever the heck you want. Its great!
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I assume you are not talking from personal experience :) So let me share mine. Being a grad student is hell (or pretty close to it). You have no rights and have to work very long hours for a very small pay and your whole life depends on your adviser. Choose poorly and you essentially become a slave.
Nums, if you go studying AL and decide that you want to try to model something more related to real life than a bunch of dots on screen - come talk to me. We can try modeling replication of HIV in a human body :) Whoo-hoo, that's a real challenge! :)
Numsgil:
The way graduate studies work, is they generally charge you tuition. If you go the route of doing it all in one year, you have to pay alot of money. If you do it part-time, and teach for the university, you can usually get it to be affordable.
But in the end grant money, if I understand right, is what makes or breaks alot of research, graduate or otherwise.
Oh, didn't I say? I'm totally converting DB into VC++.net
Numsgil:
--- Quote ---Nums, if you go studying AL and decide that you want to try to model something more related to real life than a bunch of dots on screen - come talk to me. We can try modeling replication of HIV in a human body :) Whoo-hoo, that's a real challenge! :)
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I was thinking I'd want to study the evolution of single celled, autonomous but related organisms into multicelluar life forms. Seems really interesting to me. Plus, it has like no real relationship with anything applicable!
Botsareus:
Shvartz, I was thinking I can get lucky with my graduate work somewere and actualy Injoy it, I never sayed It was anything more then just dreams...
--- Quote ---VC++.net
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hmmm... well, I can see the advantage in turms of speed and program size and flexibility.
But .net is the pain of all object orinated programing ex: lets say you want to paint a point on the screen: vb: "pset(x,y)" vb.net:(gessing):
"include.formobject
include.directx
Formobjectlibrary.formobject.directxlibrary.paintbuffer.paint.point(x,y)"
although not the exact sintex , but this kind of things are common in .net that why I dont waste time on it, not yet anyway.
--- Quote ---model something more related to real life than a bunch of dots on screen -
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well shvartz, thats the direction we are heading with DB anyway... (I can assure you its no longer "dots on screen", although we are still not particulary close to any really realistic modeling or practical uses.)
--- Quote ---Plus, it has like no real relationship with anything applicable!
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like hell I can see this being applicable Num, all the way from complex systems design (design a prefict body to behave in a sertain inviroment) , to self generating robotics. (we can have the matrix done in real life (I actualy set up a rugh model for this once without any real technical background) seems really possible) If you model organic stuff, the applicability in medicine can be great.
Numsgil:
darn, then I'll have to pick something more obscure... :P
In a related note, I found a nasty and disgusting bug in 2.4 that means a major overhall (yet again) in how bots see.
Damn.
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