18th
Pulling yourself
Draft of chapter 1 finished. By finished I mean that it seems to have almost what I want to be in there. Let’s not talk about well said and so.
Working on next chapter, definition of the problem, is being harder. I decided to finish the part I know better: syntax, semantics, etc. Then attack the approaches I have to review for sure. Finally, I’ll put everything in perspective. That’s far harder.
In practice, I’ll collect comments we have made across all the papers we have published, to have something to work on. That would not be enough. When I started working on this problem, I just knew its definition and have a minimal idea of its relation with other topics. Increasingly, reading papers and working myself, I started to understand what was going around. Now, writing the dissertation, I need to behave as if it were known territory. It is, somehow, but there are tons of gaps. One thing is to claim something over a coffee or a beer, or to get a feeling while working on specific benchmarks. Totally different is to establish sharp opinions about the work of other people.
Let’s not run. Otherwise I’ll get stuck again.
(This was written yesterday, on Dec 17th).
