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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The dog stays blissfully asleep. :)
This time, I'm actually going to begin writing a journal. I feel like I have a
lot of thoughts that I let swim around, without doing much about them. To quote
*the Happiness Lab* episode that I listened to today:
"Good intentions mean nothing if they don't translate into actions."
So I'll take Dan's advice, and use writing to do thinking. I also think that
writing this journal can improve my writing skills.
So what's going on today?
Well as I'm writing this, I'm on the 61D on my way into school listening to
*Spanish Pipedream* by John Prine. But what I really want to tell you about is
the decision I'm trying to make about whether or not to finish my PhD here at
Pitt with Dan. Last Friday, I had a meeting with Dan about an idea I was
interested in pursuing that at the core involved working with a real, tangible
system. That idea was politely dismissed, and I was 'nudged' back towards formal
methods for critical infrastructure. My immediate impression is that formal
methods for our lab is a crock of shit.
Dan means well and is genuinely looking out for my best interest, but that
doesn't translate into belief into his mission. Formal methods are an intense
mathematical pursuit in order to prove 'correctness' of something to something
else. Formal methods experts may disagree with that characterization, but
ultimately that second 'something' can be a lot of things, such as a model of a
plant, a written specification, or anything that can be logically defined.