I seem to have slipped into some form of preparatory thesis-related hibernation. The final submission is due on the 1st of December, and The Big Idea (tm) has finally emerged from the general research chaos.I'll need to finish up the work, write at least one article and produce a draft of the thesis. At least I feel a lot more confident that this will get finished in time. From my experience with my Masters thesis, things move pretty quickly when a coherent set of ideas and results have managed to clump together.
Unfortunately, it seems like I might just have to dump the part of my thesis that has already been written. Oh noes! That part was written some time ago, and the direction I've taken has changed considerably. Mmm...
The practical implementation and testing is around 60% complete, although this will be completed much faster now. Also, I'm writing in a literate programming style using the noweb program to write the code and surrounding technical report at the same time. Basically, I can write a LaTeX document with embedded code, and include the results from executing the code back into PDF document output.
This has the handy side-effect of allowing me to generate a report for my supervisors without much effort at the end of each week, which is usually a tedious task left ignored.
I might write about my test setup later. My code is written in Common Lisp, so a bit of cobbling was required to preserve some of the rapid prototyping goodness of the language, while allowing me to leave a paper trail for supervisors (and myself) to follow later.
But I must away now, for there is much cake in this world that needs my nibbly attention...
