Thursday, February 17, 2011

Where to start?

"Hello world!" (I hate this phrase)

Why to start into such a blog? (because your all other previous blogs failed to draw attention)
Here are the facts about me and my current situation:

Catching up with the guys in computer science is not easy if the staff is good (they are the best) and you are not a computer scientist but an engineer, mechanical. I should admit that I worked on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in my PhD which brings me close to computational science. So, I know a lot on iterative solution techniques, nonlinear equations, preconditioning, programming and also used - tried various commercial & open source software. On top of that, since linux is a must in computational science (this is true, who does everything in windows is not a computational guy, sorry. Yeah, Mac counts up to a point, but fails is advanced levels ok. I'm aware of the fact that Apple products look cool - like iMac. So, I got myself an iPhone even if I was keen to have an HTC just for Android - I use google services very often) I worked with Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu (was my favorite but not anymore even if I'm currently using it) hence I have some experience on being an intermediate OS user. If one should have to select a mechanical engineer into computer science - that would be me (This is not being arrogant but being confident about yourself and giving the value you deserve). At least, that was my intention. However, I don't fully agree with my own opinion before; now I see I know crap! 

Well of course, the people in my new department comes from a different disciple - they even don't call them engineer. So, it is quite natural that they are way better on various aspects of computing: databases, networking, protocols, useful tools - commands. A number of programming languages. Bla bla and bla. So, how can I compete with that? Hey, I know entropy! - So what?, could they say. Entropy does not help me here, probably would not be anyway. Most of the experience that I got was from my struggles in computing. I became an expert of trial and error and asked myself "Why?" to question the things that was presented me. That is, ladies and gentlemen, is vital to improve oneself. Still, in some cases I look like a dummy. Apparently, all of precious my efforts was not enough to go step higher - was just enough to get here - into my current position: post-doc.

Yet I'm a quick learner. Yet an important part of learning is to teach, at least sharing what you have learned and telling the new info in such a way that you are talking against a class full of students (any girls in the class - not sure, sorry. damn.) Yet I like blogger. 

Summing up, here I post not only the stuff that I know then and believe that is imporant, also the tricks that I learned from my journey, here in computer science, will be a part of this new blog of mine. New approaches,  methodologies, jokes :b (you are funny, already - yes I am, right? - yes you are - don't be that insecure). And also a bit of Zurich and Switzerland (girls? - oh please shut up now.)

Before finishing up this first post, one thing you should now is that I'm not crazy but there might be some frequent encounters with my inner voice (that's me. - yes you). You are free to ignore him (no no please, not) but time to time he can talk about some important stuff or look things from the other side (yes I do that).  Still, don't freak out, ok?

Where was I, ahh. Where do I start?

2 comments:

  1. fon da iyi olmus :) great background, gives some clues..O.O.O.

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  2. bg is the most important part you know :b

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