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[randomling]

You a PhD student too, then, hong? I guess that's three. If arwink turns up (unlikely nowadays, though he did post yesterday when Horacio first turned up I think) that's four.

I think we stop at four?

 

[hong]

See post further back in this thread. After 4 years, it should hopefully all be finished and done soon.

 

[randomling]

Wow, congratulations mate! 4 years is pretty good going, too, as I understand it.

I keep promising myself that one day I'll do a PhD. (Dr Randomling.) What's your subject?

 

[Horacio]

See post further back in this thread. After 4 years, it should hopefully all be finished and done soon.

So all four of us should be done soon... hopefully

 

[randomling]

Well Arwink changed his title a few months back, so I'm not sure if he'll be finished as soon as the rest of you.

 

[hong]

I had to have an oral exam (which are usually rare here in Austria), basically becase my thesis was so short. The typical PhD thesis is 100,000 words, right? Mine was 12,000.


Hong "but it had a lot of pretty pictures" Ooi

 

[randomling]

That's SHORT!

Over here, I think everybody has to have a viva when they do their PhD, it's part of the final assessment.

What's your title? Will I understand it?

 

[Horacio]

Well Arwink changed his title a few months back, so I'm not sure if he'll be finished as soon as the rest of you.

What's his new subject?

 

[randomling]

The narrative structure of roleplaying games.

 

[hong]

That's SHORT!

You really know how to crush a guy, don't you?

Over here, I think everybody has to have a viva when they do their PhD, it's part of the final assessment.

Yeah, I know orals are common in the UK and US. Us Austrians seem to be more relaxed about these things, though. As evidenced by how it took them 6 months to get the results back to me....

What's your title? Will I understand it?

Hm, wtf was it again...? Ah yes:

"Recursive partitioning for density estimation and mode-hunting"

There's a draft of an article I sent to a journal on my ANU page. It's basically 50% of what's in the thesis.

http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~ooi