thesis (16 out of 37)
- Learnt a lot about bash and makefiles.
- Got a 24 hour bug.
- Vomited my way through the last of my thesis corrections.
- Elizabeth and pudo brought me emergency supplies. What do I do to deserve such wonderful people in my life?
- Finished S2 of The Expanse. Very into this now.
- Watched Blade Runner. Had opinionz.
- Babysat a server.
- Continued to learn more about Docker, queuing/task management, and generally debugging systems with lots of parts.
- Did some thesis corrections but not enough goddamnit.
- Went thrice to yoga.
- Started daydreaming about NaNoWriMo.
- Filled up this site's server with email. As a result MySQL threw up on itself. Spent five hours fixing that.
- Work stuff. By the way, OCCRP is hiring developers.
- Dabbled in Postgres (yes yes I know I'm a late bloomer).
- Dabbled in docker-compose.
- Dabbled in RabbitMQ.
- Climbed Trebevic with bengo.
- Finished Season 2 of Sense8. The most unrealistic thing in the whole show is how do Nomi and Neets afford that apartment in SF? Started Season 2 of the Expanse.
- Got some of my thesis corrections done.
- It got cold in Sarajevo :( I forgot how to handle this.
- Ate soup from Union of Genius.
- Took more stuff to charity shops.
- Ate giant vegan nachos at the Hoose.
- Tried and failed to go up the Scott Monument.
- At dessert at David Bann.
- Took the night bus to London.
- Ate at Vx and vegan pie and mash from Piebury Corner.
- Flew from Luton to Tuzla; got back to Sarajevo at 3am Wednesday.
- Learnt more about ElasticSearch.
- Surrounded myself with broken instances of aleph.
- Started season 2 of Sense8.
- Started thesis corrections.
- Went up the Avaz Twist Tower with bengo.
- OCCRP launched the Azerbaijani Laundromat investigation, a small bit of which has my name on.
- Flew to London from Tuzla and took the night bus to Edinburgh.
- Ate a haggis and tattie scone roll at Snax.
- Passed my PhD defense, with minor corrections.
- Ate curry at Mosque Kitchen.
- Went to Prewired.
- Ate pizza at Rigatoni's.
- Ate pizza with vegan cheese at Pizza Express.
- Ate cake at Henderson's.
- Ate pakoras at Pakora Bar.
- Ate pancakes and cake at The Herbivore Kitchen.
- Tea and chocolate tart at Anteaques.
- Dropped stuff at charity shops, the Bike Station, and The SHRUB.
- Ate a vegan burrito at Forest Cafe.
- Ran around Holyrood Park.
- Ate chips on the beach at Portobello.
- Returned to Penang.
- Finally 'finished' chapter 2 but I hate it.
- Wrote some JavaScript that automatically figures out numbers for referencing from the list at the end.
- HANDED MY PHD THESIS IN only a day and a half late really
- Went to meditate in total silence on the side of a hill in Malaysia for ten days.
- (no really)
- Finished chapter 4
- Did most of chapter 2
- Finished chapters 1 and 6, intro and conclusions
- Flew from Perth to Penang
- Polished some things up
- Wait what? is that all the chapters??
- Hahaha no you still have to spend two days fighting with references and literature you forgot to read!
- The thesis is late now.
- My RSI is bad.
Week in review: 2 - 8 October
I read, made notes on, and wrote a small literature review on some papers yesterday. Part of me loved it, it's been a while. Part of me suffered greatly from PhD PTSD I guess.
Week in review: 25 September - 1 October
Week in review: 18 - 24 September
Okay, I went out for lunch, went to the market, sat in the sun, uploaded photos from the last week, took a nap, and made chocolate muffins. 7pm seems like as good a time as any to start the day's thesis corrections.
Week in review: 11 - 17 September
I'm doing my thesis corrections.
As you may know, my whole thesis writing process has been public on Github throughout, in the interests of #OpenScience and #LinkedResearch. The feedback from my examiners during my viva is documented as issues with the 'viva' tag, and I also opened more issues from my own notes during the defense.
If there are bits of my thesis you've read on the past or are particularly interested in, now would be a great time to file any other issues you've spotted for things you'd like to see updated or fixed in the final hardbound copy of my thesis which will, I presume, live in the University of Edinburgh library, survive the impending technological apocalypse, and generally outlive all of us. I aim to print the thing by the 31st of October.
Week in review: 4 - 10 September
I passed my PhD viva yesterday, subject to minor corrections! Just call me Dr. Guy.
Thanks to my intrepid examiners Dave de Roure and Mark Hartswood for reading my whole thesis and spending three hours on a really interesting discussion of my findings and the implications. I don't even have words to express how grateful I am to my supervisor Ewan Klein, who has humoured me faultlessly for the last five years.
Fun fact: I haven't written my thesis acknowledgements yet because every time I try to think about all of the amazing people who have supported me over all this time I cry.
Cool! I can spend a Sunday staying inside and watching DS9 in my pyjamas, but without not-writing-thesis guilt! (This is the first time I've been stable and had the opportunity to since I handed in).
Instead, I just get not-doing-other-side-projects guilt. Can't win 'em all.
Weeks in review: 1 - 14 May
This looks quite heavy.
My thesis is, and always has been, online at dr.amy.gy. You can read it, and you can even annotate it with dokieli, or open github issues, so long as you acknowledge that I rushed a lot of parts (my own fault). I will continue to improve it over the coming months, and my defense/viva will be in September, after which I expect lots of corrections and to republish a better version. So don't feel bad if you want to wait until then to read it :)
216 pages.
79,165 words.
4 years and 7 months and 2 days
21 countries.
Week in review: 24 - 30 April
OH: no more talking to Amy until she's finished her thesis.