Not much happening

Worked on my program of the Monte Carlo Tic-Tac-Toe, been having problems and fixing them. Right now my problem is that the program is not exploring enough. It reaches only 1000+ states and stops exploring. I would like it to reach 4000 - 6000 states when it is learning. I figure I'll work on this some more and start making the TD(0) next then Dynamic Programming last. I figure the DP will probably end up to be the best, even though the other two methods are an improvement on DP.
 
I have to go visit my advisor this Monday, and  get my car. I will try to finish a section on TD-lambda hopefully this Sunday afternoon.  Got about 3 weeks to get my shit together and still have to worry about www.4gbg.com also.
 
I will also need to get my paper proof read and fixed to the CS standard for publication after all that. I probably won't make the 8/8/04 deadline and will pay $400 for 1 credit hour extension. That will mean I will have to return during christmas break, if I have a job, and present my thesis then.

Freshman

Been busy lately with the freshman orientation, mostly driving and eating food for once. The same bull shit presentation we give to the normal students but 100% more shit. Oh Well

Car & Money

Well the car needs a new alternator and gas liner to stop leak. Should cost about $400 and take a week to fix. :(

I Need Money,
Send Cash or Check to:

William Andrus
1 Residential Dr.
Utica, NY 13502

(hey if i get a check for .01 cents I be a happy man, even though its not worth sending it to my bank since a stamp cost .40 cents here. So if you do send a joke check make it for a $1 :) lol

Thesis Checklist

Not much left to the thesis, I hope. Still have to discuss Temporal Difference decay, TD- Gammon, write 3 programs of tic-tac-toe using DP, MC and TD(0), a write up on my findings of these methods. That should be everything, probably talk to my advisor and re-edit the paper as needed and change wording if I don't like it. I also probably need to find out how the layout of the bibliogrpahy and citing will need to be done.

Today and Yesterday sucked.

Yesterday I had to work up in Mohawk from 4pm to 12am for free of course without any compusation. Thats 31 hours in the office and 54 hours out of the office on-call this week. (*Drum Roll*)Making a total of 85 hours this week!!!! FUCK ME.

Getting back to my day:

I planned ahead and went to get a movie: The Butterfly Effect (a good movie, love the extras about chaotic dynamical systems, hehe math) and a Xbox game: Hitman Contracts. So you would expect everything to be on the good, but on the way back my car's battery light came on and I have no clue why.

Today I went to get in my car and it wouldn't work, but gave it a second try and it worked. I went to drop of the game and movie just incase there was something wrong with the car figuring it should at least run until I turn it off again. So I go to blockbuster without having take a shower, wearing the same clothes from yesterday and my hair is all messed up. So on the way back from blockbuster my car finally died again (3rd time this summer). I called the tow truck and they wont look at the car until Monday, and I had to walk home.

I decided to walk since I was only 1 hr walk away from home, but 1 hr of walking sucks when wearing loose jeans that fall down, unwash hair and the warm sun beaming down. Hey Im a Comp Sci major, if I see the sun more then once a year it was to much. To include in the walk I had my backpack full with my xbox and stuff adding weight on my tired shoulder.

I get home and rest for an hour and a half before I go back into the office again.
I'm here in the office trying to waste time, I wrote a review of the Hitman:Contracts for the 4GBG.com website.

DJ Will

DJ Will

Added more music and changed the color scheme to meet my website design.

Photo Album

Photo Album

Added something additional to website again. A photo album of some pictures of people and events. The link can be found by going through the pictures website. Might add some later on, I think I will need to scan them in if I do.

Who was the dope to pick the school's furniture!!

The furniture at this school is one of the most uncomfortable I have seen. Why would any school select uncomfortable furniture, is my question?

A comfortable furniture just makes more sense, I guess that would be the main reason for this furniture. This school's choices always comes down to cheap, stupidity.

My argument: The more comfortable a chair, bed or couch is the better the students will be in all aspects of their life.

A comfortable desk chair would help, allowing students to study, and write more while on the computer. I and most students can last about 3 hours max sitting in these backbreaking chairs. So I'm assuming that this school wants the students not to do well in their school work.

A comfortable living room chair and couch would help out in social settings. By having a more welcoming living room, we would allow students to be social for longer hours, and potentially give guest and sleep over guest a more positive view on the school. The couch is impossible to sleep on where there are 2 boards, one that hits the ribs, the other on the hips. The chairs are not comfortable either, the board in the back hits about under the shoulder blades, making most students have back problems after a couple of hours. It is hard to sit still for a movie when the chair is becoming very uncomfortable. So I'm assuming that this school wants the students to have no social life within their own suite, making the students crave for their bed.

The bed is comfortable enough to sleep in, but that's it. The beds here squeak every time you move, and are very small. The students here are afraid of falling off their bed. It is a XL single bed, about 7 feet by 2.5 feet. To roll over in the bed is impossible, the students have to basically rotate in one location hovering above the bed then laying back down. I'm guessing this school doesn't want the students to get enough sleep. This of course has a large impact on our school work, social life, and health.

I figure, hoping, that the school doesn't want this, but instead got the cheapest piece of crap furniture they can find. Sure it might look nice to potential students, but the real students know better.

You can go to the school's website at SUNYIT and can look all you want and never find a picture of the student's rooms might look like.

More Music

Added some more music to my radioblog. Mostly Classical Music, and some 60s, 70s music.

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Match Report: CSUF vs. San Diego III

My friend, Venkatesh Tatineni, in Pasadena, CA. I guess he is still playing cricket. By the looks of the report I guess very well. I hope I can get into shape and maybe play a little cricket when I get out there myself.

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