Tracking the time

6 hours of working, see how long exactly I worked per day.

8:30 -- 10:30 breakfast and home stuff, excercise ..

10:35 -- 12:30 programming and reading papers.

12:30 -- 3:00pm lunch and immigration documents , chating with yudong about Sydney

3:00pm -- 5:00pm study and reading the paper

6:00pm -- 8:30pm Dinner and reading the fashion magzine :S

9:10pm -- 11:15pm Writing the thesis.

11:00pm -- 12:00pm Chatting and prep for sleep.

Perl -- difference between system call and `

Call perl file in the perl file.

eg: In perla.pl
....
system ("perl", "perlb.pl", "$m", "$n");
`perlc.pl`;

Notes:
system is safer , but can not print the output to standard device, but allow the output to file. It also allow the input parameter to perl file

` is tricky , but allow the output to standard device.

sorting

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introcs/42sort/

SPSS

very good data analysis tools: ONLINE TUTORIAL

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/notes2/

Information overload on information overload

Experience great information overload and anxiety recently when I am trying to write the introduction for my thesis. So many ways to start , so many things that can be write there, but how to structure them in a good way. The more I search, the more I think, the more I am overwhelmed. Felt bitter and ironic. I am 'a computer scientist' whose goal is to solve the information overload problem using technology{QA/Summarization}, felt extremely overload now :-/

Javier showed me an interesting search "information overload on information overload"
, haha, seems this is really true! Another interesting search is "miserable failure".

Anyway, get back to my Introduction on thesis writing, and this gives me a good hint of how to start :)