Had a horribly long lesson yesterday. started from 9am and ended at 5pm. milan meeting after that furthermore. manz! And to think that design management class starts at 8am tomorrow. i really need some rest. our watch presentation went fine, though it felt almost like a long marathon as we struggled with 46 slides in 20 minutes. we practically finished right on the dot only. arghz . There was a guess lecture today by this guy from Anoto, a company which does technological stuff such as digital pen & paper. Their technologies can be found in Logitech's products. It's cool, their dot matrix paper technology. It allows one to write on a presentation slide physically printed out on dot matrix paper using a digital pen (the ink come out like how normally writing pens do), and the scribbles on this presentation slide appears simultaneously on the computer screen display, which shows exactly the same position of the exact same slide. Infrared digital camera on the digital pen is doing the job.
Anyway. I really enjoyed the way he talked about human psychology vs technology though it may not have been all that related to the topic we were learning. He believes that computers are dumb after all. it's like when you have two similar sounding phrases, "recognise speech" & "wreck a nice beach", the human brain can discern which phrase it is, considering the context given. like if the topic is on environmental issues, it'd obviously be "wreck a nice beach" to the human brain. however, to the computer, it wouldn't have been able to discern it. The human brain, he believes, is the smartest "computer", capable of correctly identifying words or phrases as long as the context is given, regardless of how illegible words can be or how similar-sounding phrases are.
But it's odd how our brain, "this super computer", can twist and turn words, like in the game of "telepathy", where the 1st person whispers a phrase to the 2nd, the 2nd to the 3rd, etc... the last person always turns out saying a totally absurdly different phrase from the first. well, i suppose that given a normal computer doing such a "pass the message on" job, it wouldn't commit an error as such. it's really fascinating what goes on in the human mind after all.
Got a letter to collect a package. Oddly, it ain't at Willy's supermarket, as it should have been usually, but is instead at a flower shop near my place, which i have to locate tomorrow, hopefully within its opening hours. -.- i wonder if it's my ski goggles, my ski mask or the package from mom which has arrived. somehow it's not indicated on the letter.. Anyway, i've received my sunglasses! fits perfectly well and tight. haha that's a self-taken photo of me with my first ebay purchase arrival ^^What else.. ah, yeah, we went to the milan trip meeting today after a considerable long absence. guilty as charged. we might not get a chance to go milan liao since there are too many people who wanna go now, but i guess it's alright with me lah.. considering i'll be touring it with mom n aunt in june. volunteered to help out with the webpage & i'm so looking forward! haha the chance to play with more html stuff has arrived~ really hope it'll turn out to be a gd job.
Yeapyeap, upcoming stuff to do [this is a self reminder list]
- WATCH project report (due fri 7 mar)
- Bank transfer for spain trip
- ask about credit card monthly slip
- return library books and cds
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- Design management project with Craig & Carolina
- Ikea project
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- Milan meeting Fri 12pm lunch
- Blog on stockholm trip
I understand now why dad always nags at me to do stuff immediately instead of waiting liao. it's like the act of resisting procrastination for every small action builds up into a momentum which makes you feel motivated to work hard for other stuff as well. Well, now i know why he nags le. it's a new feeling to me afterall. some things have to be self-explored i suppose.
I'm out, seeing the world, in my very own way =)
