Finals are over, let the waiting begin

The stress is bleeding off finally, and now I am just waiting for grades to post.  Dont think I did too bad in any class, but Finance has me worried, too many formula's, not enough excell.   Nothing to do but wait.

Dr. John Watson

Found this a while back, The Personal Blog or Dr. John Watson, it is from BBC One and not an actual blog, but it ties into to a discussion I was having with a class mate about blogs.

Blogs CAN be a business tool if properly formatted and maintained...

INFO 410

Done!  Wonderful feeling that everything is coming together as I had planned.  Info 410 done, Info 274 nearly done, Fin 314 done just studying left.  Time to go back to a normal sleep schedule of 8 hours and no more 2 hour night!!

Finding Good Apps for Children With Autism - NYTimes.com

Came across this article today in my google news lineup and was intrigued by some of the apps available. My son is not Autistic per say but does show autistic tendencies (so does his aunts, uncles, dad, grandfather... I am beginning to see a trend...) some of these apps are ones that I have already been using others look like a electronic way of doing what I have already been doing.

Finding Good Apps for Children With Autism - NYTimes.com

Game theory

Came across an article that tied in to a class discussion from the other day...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204294504576615371783795248.html?mod=WSJ_hp_editorsPicks_1

From what I understand of the article this is something that Dr. Rohm was asking as to why a entire degree could not be taught this way?  Just like most people's jobs, a lot of the course work we study is boring for a lot of people.  Granted not everyone enjoys video games, and some others simply prefer an instructor in the room and the interface that provides.

Visio...

Ok, on a unrelated topic why does Visio no longer support forward engineering from a ER Diagram to the SQL code you would then need to generate that new database?  I would even settle for SQL for MySQL or oracle and not MS-Access.  Yeah, Yeah, there are a couple of work around's, namely Forward Engineer for Visio on Code Source but even that doesn't work great.  All the time I just spent creating the Diagram must now be repeated in order to write the database...  two hours of time that I would like to have back.

Visio Forward Engineer

TED

Watched a interesting TED video the other day which showed how data was driving everything from stocks to amazon.com pricing on out of print books.  Algorithms today run the world and we are installing dedicated trunk lines of fiber optics for nothing but this data.  Rather scary on the one hand, but the ability to process that higher level thought process at that speed is inspiring.  One day in my life time it is very likely that a AI will in fact respond in a human like way, based upon an algorithm that determined how to move stocks around.

The TED Video link is here