Aching and stiff knees and sore feet from blisters was my body’s state when I awoke, but not as bad as I thought I was going to be today. Again, I woke up before my alarm, but this time only by a few minutes (I think) so hopefully I can settle into that time as a rhythm… maybe. Tomorrow I’m going to try and attend a 9.30am class that I’m not enrolled in to see whether or not I want to be enrolled in that rather than the class that it overlaps.

First class today was 3D Photography, which is ostensibly the Graphics offering for the quarter. Kinda heady stuff to start with, I had a lot of trouble focusing, although I don’t know if that necessarily has anything to do with the material or if it was just that I wasn’t entirely there and needed to get some lunch. Afterwards I set up in my office and briefly met one of my new officemates for the quarter, Christian. He’s in my 3D Photography class and is over from Germany trying to get some inspiration for new ideas for his doctoral research.

Went to the introductory session for the AI seminar, which was just organizational stuff really… looks like the times for it will probably get changed again as it partially clashes with something else.

The Colloquium today was a really good one. It was by a guy named Luis von Ahn from Carnegie Mellon University on the power of human computation. He was very entertaining and was talking about how he has been using fun, online games to help solve large computer science problems. Annotating and labeling images, possibly all of them on the web; providing a lot of research data for computer vision learning algorithms… all very interesting stuff, as well as a lot of potential in the future work. Notable sites to visit are here and here. I sat with Christian from my office and Michael, his supervisor and my 3D Photography lecturer.

After that I went back to the office and sat down and did some work. I worked out if I want to meet my project quota for the month I need to be working insane amounts over the next few days, which isn’t good. However, I’ll do my best.

After a fair while of working and organizing things, I head out and got a couple of burritos and went back to my apartment. I sat down and watched an episode of anime and then spent some time organizing a few things on my computer (getting kinda cluttered on there) before diving back into my emails. After that I watched an episode of Spider-man (some guy on the Hub has all 5 seasons… I may have to download them and burn them to DVD) then went to bed.