"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

A pile of new stuff to learn

With lots of friends going to college or studying hard in homeschool, I too often put the focus on other people.  I always harp on the kids about learning.  I try to be careful to make the very important distinction between learning and getting a degree, certificate, or diploma.  Degrees, certificates, and diplomas hold now value other than what is accrued to them by the societies within which they are honored.  They do say something about the process through which someone has passed to acquire them, but even that is diminished of late by grade inflation and the big push to get everyone through college.  I think the old 8th grade diploma became the high school diploma in the fifties and is the bachelor’s degree of our day.

At any rate, I am finishing up a big chunk of functionality for the product on which I work at my day job.  I will be moving on to a new chunk of functionality that will require me to have a deeper understanding of the math used to know things about the three dimensions of things in scenes of which we capture images.  We will take multiple images from different directions, light the scenes with different spectra, diffusion, and direction of light, and do some other tricks to try to get information on the third dimension of things from two dimensional images.  I know quite a bit about how to do that now, but need to do it at a precision and speed and with noisier images than I have ever worked in the past.  What that means is that I will need to start learning some new things.  It is math and it will be messy to learn, but I have been harping on the importance of learning until you die so much.  No it is time for me to put my money where my mouth is!

Note:  Here is an interesting article by one of my favorite authors that helps me remember why I need to study hard–I am not that smart.

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2 Comments

  1. My best friend, who was a psychology major for a while, sees the trend needing ever more diplomas extending now into a Master’s Degree.

    But I agree: Learning is far more important than a bit of paper [smile].

    ~Luke

  2. Dad

    Luke, thanks a lot for checking in. I am feeling pretty sheepish now about thinking you were an automated poster! We have a friend who went through a nine month adoption via Brazil, so we especially appreciate being able to read on your blog about your families efforts in that regard.

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