Wrestling

I thought I would share some of the older event "music videos" from the past few years (2009-2011).  It saddens me I likely won't do another event (it would be great if I could (mainly need more wrestlers)).  If you have not lingered around my YouTube channel enough to check these out, I encourage you to!  I started doing this kind of stuff back in 2004, and there are more events that do exist by me.

EWF Clash (2009):  [link]  
EWF Breakout 2010 (2010): [link]
EWF Rite of the Ring 2011 (2011):  [link]

Enjoy!


Daniel

One postulated problem with the future of CS research these days

Good Afternoon Everybody!

  Today I thought I would share one of my urks of amateur researchers that don't grasp the purpose of science.  Some people just don't grasp that science isn't about if there is an application for a result.  Today I was giving a pretty solid presentation on a new result in the area of Graph Drawing and somebody insisted on asking me:

"Are there any applications for this?"

Now I don't blame the person if this wasn't A THEORY course.  Do you know what that means?  We do real Computer Science, none of this programming mumbo-jumbo.  Real computer scientists don't solve problems just for applications in my honest opinion.  A great scientist doesn't consider applications in their research.  They consider solving the problem, and verifying the claims being made.  Applications are best set by engineers, or people who work on applications (say industry).  I humbly believe this is one of the major problems with the direction CS research is going.  People think application, applications and more applications instead of what we could show 20-30 years down the road to continue the path set by the foundations of CS.  In science we shouldn't be thinking "we solve problems for NOW".  We should be developing and solving problems for NOW and the future.

Everybody have a beautiful day!

D R Page