{"id":837,"date":"2008-05-03T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/05\/03\/so-much-to-do-so-little-time\/"},"modified":"2008-05-03T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T22:51:09","slug":"so-much-to-do-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/05\/03\/so-much-to-do-so-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"So much to do &#8211; so little time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the lack of activity here &#8211; an EPSRC grant with Riccardo came through, which is big happy news.  The downside is that there&#8217;s a <em>ton<\/em> of research work to be done in a very short period of time.  We were lucky enough to have Ellery Crane visiting for the last two weeks, and the two of us did some pretty massive hours while he was here.  We got a <em>bucket<\/em> of really good work done was he here; we built several large new systems and got some early results that suggest probably at least a couple of papers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post at least sporadically in the upcoming weeks, but I suspect things are likely to be light here well into the summer.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/computing\/\" title=\"Computing\">Computing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/genetic-programming\/\" title=\"genetic programming\">genetic programming<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/grant\/\" title=\"grant\">grant<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/research\/\" title=\"Research\">Research<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/science\/\" title=\"Science\">Science<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/02\/27\/you-know-basic-editing-and-lit-review-teh-good\/\" title=\"You know, basic editing and lit review = teh good (27 Feb 08)\">You know, basic editing and lit review = teh good<\/a> (3)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/25\/wrapping-ones-head-around-the-data\/\" title=\"Wrapping one&#8217;s head around the data (25 Jan 08)\">Wrapping one&#8217;s head around the data<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the lack of activity here &#8211; an EPSRC grant with Riccardo came through, which is big happy news. The downside is that there&#8217;s a ton of research work to be done in a very short period of time. We were lucky enough to have Ellery Crane visiting for the last two weeks, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/05\/03\/so-much-to-do-so-little-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So much to do &#8211; so little time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[1,12,15],"tags":[859,235,317,864,866],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-dv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":781,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/25\/wrapping-ones-head-around-the-data\/","url_meta":{"origin":837,"position":0},"title":"Wrapping one&#8217;s head around the data","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"25 Jan 08","format":false,"excerpt":"JOCP! 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