For starters, I got blizzarded into the MSP airport this morning, where I worked with tree math for a while and then I watched an episode of NCIS that I downloaded yesterday called "The Cloak." No, I am not going to give a synopsis here, but I think this episode had a pretty cool point. So I do have to give a synopsis.
The idea of the episode was that the main characters were engaged in a war game with another group; they were looking for a security breech. And their superiors were engaged in another war game above them looking for the security breech. And there were several levels of this game going on, and the whole show ended up with the eventual way of dealing with the breech simply being to follow the "mole" until it went back to its bosses. This, I think, mimics how I SHOULD deal with data. I like to invent "games" for data on many levels. Maybe I should just try to trace it some time, instead of wondering how it plays...
By the way: the "cloak" as mentioned above is cool, but snuggies are not.
You know, I think this isn't all that different from the way I tend to approach research problems. That's sort of what makes interesting problems interesting, to me: it's the ones where you're really solving a puzzle that are cool! It's like you're some kind of intellectual detective.
ReplyDeleteHaha I like that. Intellectual detective, eh? I am going to think of myself this way more often. But the most important question is... do I then get top line security clearance so I can use GIANT DATABASES?
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