Post-thesis, post-aprils-fools update

Just over a month ago, I handed in my Mas­ters The­sis. All that’s left now is an oral defense of it one of the next weeks. So what hap­pens then? I sup­pose I should find a job. A few peo­ple have asked if I am going to do a PhD, but I don’t think so. I think I’ve had enough of acad­e­mia for now. It was fun while it lasted, but I think it’s time to try some­thing dif­fer­ent. But beyond that, I don’t really know what I’m going to do. For now, I’ve just enjoyed my free time, catch­ing up on all the things I haven’t really had time for while writ­ing the the­sis (such as play­ing Mass Effect 2, which I heartily rec­om­mend, and yes, some cod­ing on var­i­ous hobby projects).

Here is what I’ve pre­vi­ously writ­ten about my the­sis on the blog, here is what Wikipedia has to say on the sub­ject, and here is the the­sis itself, includ­ing source code.

I’ve been mean­ing to write this post pretty much for the last month. The rea­son I’m finally doing it is that I also wanted to drop a quick line on a cute aprils fool joke that should be of inter­est to a lot of gamers:

Rock, Paper, Shot­gun ded­i­cated the entire day to per­fectly ordi­nary PC game reporting/blogging as if it’d been April 1st, 1993. Cute and intel­li­gent, and served as a fun trip down mem­ory lane. Nice idea, and a nice change from the usual fare of every­one try­ing to pull off out­ra­geous or absurd sto­ries ad nau­seam. Espe­cially as there seemed to be prac­ti­cally no worth­while pranks to be found any­where this year (even Google had some pretty tame ones), your up to the minute cov­er­age of PC gam­ing news as of 17 years ago really made the day.

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