I’m moving!

I’m moving my phd logbook here http://cgthecodegirl.wordpress.com/ for some reasons

My next posting will be uploaded there.

See you there

back to teaching again

I left my favorite session of coding and debugging today, because I was so excited being a teacher again!

So let me pending the technical report about my research until tomorrow

Passed another milestone

Passed EL7098 on Thursday Jan 15th 2009.

Haven’t got time to update this log for the last few weeks, but will do it more regularly starting from now.

How to make a table with multirows in Lyx

Another trivial technical tips I need to post for my own reference whenever I forgot about these seem-to-be-not-important things.

If you want to make a table with multirows like this in Lyx:

things won’t be as easy as creating tables with multicolumn. Lyx won’t allow you to right click and check the “multicolumn” option on the preference window.

Here’s how:

1. You have to insert these command in LATEX on the table like this:

this command

\multirow{4}{0.5cm}{the text goes here}

means that we set a multirow that consists of 4 rows with 0,5cm width and “the text goes here” as the text

2. Insert another scripts in the document’s preamble:

3. And there you go! A multirow table.

An official tutorial from Lyx here.

Revising Proposal

Still working on the proposal. Revising the whole outline, adding more details on basic theories, trying to make a more focus description about the research targets, restructuring the flow etc, etc…

The deadline is Dec 19th, 2008 but my target is the proposal has to be ready on Dec 16th to be submitted to all the academic supervisors.

Pass the Quals

With major/minor revisions. In two weeks.

Well, maybe I can take a break for a while, and be happy that now the research is becoming more focus

Reporting some progress

Well, I’m posting some updates about my progress just to announce that I’m still alive and still willing to continue the phd programme yet still struggling from getting bored of the topic

1. The proposal (ver 7.0) had been submitted.
2. The problems due to my mistake of registering to a wrong course is being taken care of.
3. The slides for quals (and to be presented to #1, #2 and #3 on Mon and on the phd regular meeting on Wed) is almost ready. It’s 56 slides already, I’m giving quite a lot of diagrams, illustrations and simple calculations
4. The seminar about research and roadmap went fine.
5. The least important thing is: i dream about diagrams, hypothesis, philosophical way of thinking and bla bla blaaaa… every night. Sleeping is not so much fun anymore

Schedules and deadlines and updates

1. #1, #2 and #3 have approved the dissertation title and let me go for quals.
2. Quals will be on Dec 5th or earlier.
3. The dissertation proposal has to be submitted early tomorrow morning.
4. I have to present the proposal at phd regular meeting tomorrow (attended by #1, phd tutor and all phd fellows).
5. If I pass the quals I have to do the seminar on Dec week 2nd.

Compiling with OS X

TA-ing this class, I have to explain about compilation system. Later found out that OS X does not support many of the tools that relate to loading, linking and executing programs. More about it here.

To generate an assembly code from a c program saved as code.c :

gcc -S code.c

that will result code.s

The file code.s looks like:

Using optimization option

gcc -O1 -S code.c



gcc -O2 -S code.c

to compile and assemble code:

gcc -c code.c

will result code.o in binary format

to dump the object code, instead of

objdump -d code.o

i use

otools -tv code.o

[this posting is still being updated at any time

i'm doing many things at the same time right now ]

A loner

What a lonely and quiet day!

The lab is empty, everybody’s out of town!

Planning to make some progress today but this is too depressing. Nobody to talk to, or to discuss with or to share lunch with. Feel like switching to the other personality