Here’s a book I should be reading: Hans Rott, Change, choice and inference: A study of belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning. It will be directly thesis-relevant, and judging by a couple of papers by the guy I’ve read it might be something I’d like to own myself.
Except for one leetle teeny detail: it costs $130.
It’s [...]
I’ve taken the plunge, and posted my first dissertation chapter online. It’s still not quite complete (needs some transition paragraphs and general tidying up) but it’s readable and the content shouldn’t change much from here on in.
It’s slightly terrifying, sending your ideas out into the wide world like this, but I think they’re solid enough [...]
I’ve posted the slides (3.1M download!) to my LeGO talk, on my publications page. A bit about how and why, and some technical questions maybe the laziweb will answer for me, after the gap.
I haven’t posted much lately, because I’m having a spurt of dissertatory activity (less painful than it sounds). Tomorrow I’ll present the main ideas of my thesis at the LeGO (our internal colloquium, feel free to stop by if you wanna), and next week I should have a short version of my first chapter drafted. [...]
Googled “suppression task”. Looking for this. Found this.
I’ve spent a bit of time organising my LaTeX setup for maximal dissertatory efficiency. Mainly I want a system that lets me put definitions somewhere sensible (a thesis.sty package), but also makes it easy to typeset chapters individually to hand around, without duplicating definitions or having to hand-edit files for book or single-chapter output.
I’ve got [...]