Partial Solar Eclipse

There will be a partial solar eclipse today. Nice.

I have a presentation on a paper summary. The paper am summarizing and presenting is "Merging trust in collaborative filtering to alleviate data sparsity and cold start" by Guibing Guo, Jie Zhang and Daniel Thalmann. I do hope I do a good job so fingers crossed.

Ok, that's all for now.

8 days later...

So it's been 8 days since I wrote anything here. How sad. Anyway, a lot has happened. I got a feed back from my instructor about the literature review i handed in. It was all praises, except for some comma (,) issues. I have a presentation tomorrow. The slides are finally ready.

I think the most important of all that happened was that I was able to finally agree on a topic for my PhD and for my Research methods class. So I will be working on data Mining in Social networks. I think it's the next big thing in social media and in Trust and Reputation Systems.

Thank God it's Friday! I have a proposal to hand in later today then am ready to have a good evening. My lab mates are going out to see a movie so I will be going with them. Will definitely tell you all how it went.

Drama

I got to finish and hand in the literature review today. Thank God. I also decided on a topic for the summary project. Thank God too. Spent the rest of the day trying to read as much as I can. Felt really tires today, don't know why.

Aside the LIB and AyeDee drama today on http://lindaikeji.blogspot.ca/2014/10/between-linda-ikeji-and-mr-aye-dee-real.html nothing much to talk about. Not my business, but I stood by Linda (and still stand by her) because I believe she is hard worker and has achieved ALL she has in life through hard work. People don't appreciate others' success. How sad.

Happy birthday mum!!!

My mum, the best of the best, is a year older. Here is wishing her long life and prosperity in perfect health.

A lot to do this week in terms of submissions. Today hopefully, I have to complete the literature review due this Friday. I have to critically go through 2 articles to decide which I will submit for 890 summary. I also have to go through my topics for the final 890 project to decide which I will eventually do. ALL today. I will check back in the evening to let you know how much progress I made. Fingers crossed.

Thank God it's Friday

Could not write anything yesterday. I was too tired to think. Anyway, I have come up with the 3 research topics for 890 course and I have submitted them. That took a lot of my time because what I did initially was not good enough.

I volunteered today at the Open House. It was fun and there was free food! I interacted with high school teenagers, which was cool. But then I felt so old. I can't even remember when I was a high schooler.

I should leave early today as I need to catch some sleep, and because the temperature will soon start to drop again. It was really cold this morning, as low as -4. I have a few book recommendations by my friend so  I will check them out. I think I already know which to get.

The bus drivers are still on strike, making it difficult to get around town for non car owners.