A Computer Scientist

Do you want to know about how to fabricate the robot parts?
We, engineers, called it ‘fabrication’, that is a sequence of making parts.

First, complete to draw a design of parts (CAD) with Autocad Invetor (or SolidWork)
Second, we have to draw CAM, which is the plan of the movements of drills (with VisualMill)

Third, with the CNC code, we run a drilling machin (above, TinyCNC) with Mach2

Forth, sophistcately trim the parts by hand!

Yes, these are the process of fabricating. Isn’t it simple?

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Realistic stories of game company! This is one of the must-see books for CS majors and gamers. That is not only for fun, but also for realistic social story of programmers and planners. To tell the truth, stories about salaries are devastatingly sad, but ‘substitutes of military duty’ is fun I absolutely agree with that part. When I was a child, I fall into love with ‘Dolmen (고인돌)’ and ‘Three Kingdom (삼국지).’ When I was middle school student, I was also the mania of console (package) games such as ‘Genesis’ and ‘Warcraft.’ I could not tell about games without ‘Starcraft and Bloodwar.’ It is the best game until today. However, ever since I studied all aspects of ‘Computer’, game is not much fun for me. That is because I don’t have much time to play game. Spending time with playing soccer and tennis, or watching movies is much useful to relax for me after some time. I try to be far from computer when taking a rest. Anyhow reading this book is also interesting.

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I reported a vulnerability to KAIST Security Team, and they sent an email that they corrected it.

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I like (?) examination weeks (dependent & controversial).

First, I can have a time to concentrate only on textbooks, if I managed my schedule properly before taking examination. And if I have course projects and due date of research projects, it will give me overwhelming amount of stress. Yes, like normal KAIST students. However, unless I could not have examination period, I could not recapitulate and organize my thought ever! because student hate reviewing process. If you think that reviewing is for dummies, don’t do that! Reviewing is the most necessary process for learners like students. Thus, taking examination by force definitely is the way to learn something.

Second, sitting more than 10 hours day, I feel like I really think ’something.’ New ideas abruptly come while studying different fields or books at least for me. Combining one’s idea (or book) to other’s idea (or problem) is essential part of me.

Anyway, I forgot to open my portfolio pages to public for graduate admission process, and mistakenly open my blog address to my MSN for about 3 hours. God, shameful (I heard it from one of my friends). I should have to make it secret until March at least.

Blocking access from KAIST address? No away!
Enjoying examination weeks!

Do you also agree that software sucks and thus bodering?

I definitely agree with the opinions of the author, especially for Vista. I used Ubuntu which is my desktop OS for about 3 years, but I had to move to Vista in order to use Autodesk Inventor. Since Autodesk Inventer requires heavy computing power and 3d functionality, WINE and VirtualBox come to be useless. Even though I tried to install vista upon existing Ubuntu together, it overwrote my MBR! I could restore MBR with GRUB, but it made me angry.
The worst program is the KAIST web portal,

1. not authenticated (blocked by default with alert red! mark by Firefox, Crome and IE)
2. database errors in notices and articles
3. annoying activeX (where and why do we need activeX for a school’s portal?)
4. broken when accessing from any browsers except IE 6.0
5. security reasons
5-1. I can know each students and professors’s security number directly from web
5-2. I can delete and modify the article written by the authenticated users
5-3. Uncountable errors
However, the best program is Leopard in my opinion.

1. intuitive & neat interface
2. easy to install/remove any applications
3. fast recovery from hibernate state when open/close the Air
And definitely emacs.

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In business week story, I read an article, ‘Worst Jobs with the Best Pay’.

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