Tag: Doctor of Philosophy
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Do other PhD students do this too?
Send some results to your supervisor and then realise a few hours later that they are flawed and while the mistake is a minor one, you still feel like a bit of an idiot? I do this *every* time it seems. Related articles A PhD Survival Guide: Guest Post Am I a student, or […]
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How slow is a fast computer?
I am working on a simulation environment for a NoC. The idea is that we can take a memory reference string – generated by Valgrind – and then test how long it will take to execute with different memory models for the NoC. It’s at an early stage and still quite crude. The data set […]
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A moment reached
I have just submitted my “qualifying dissertation” to the University of York. Latterly I have been thinking of my PhD studies in terms of the film Dougal and the Blue Cat – I grew up at a bad time (the virtual collapse of cinema going in the 60s and 70s) and a bad place (in […]
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Books about PhDs
I was wondering whether anyone has any recommendations for books about getting/doing a PhD. I am now reading The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research and it is very good, so I’d happily recommend it – it is one of those books that helps you see the underlying order in what appears to be the chaos […]
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How to be a successful PhD student
The answer is buy a soft backed note book. Well, there is a bit of presumption going on here. I am not a successful PhD student as ultimately that is a binary thing: a successful PhD student is one who gets the doctorate. I have not even begun an experiment yet. But I do feel […]
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End of term feeling
Forty years ago about this time I had my nice-est ever educational experience when, to my complete surprise, I won the P3 Christmas story prize in Mrs MacManus’s class in Holy Child Primary School. I still remember the way disappointment at not coming third or second was turned into pure joy by actually winning, and […]
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Universities target plagiarism but maybe fraud should be the real worry
The first thing I had to do when I started work on my PhD course at York was to complete an online learning unit on plagiarism. It was fairly tedious, as I had already had to sit through several hours worth of lectures at Birkbeck on the issue when preparing for my MSc project report. […]
cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly 