Busy week. We've been scheduling meetings as often as we can, and I have been trying to make it to all of them. It really is essential so we can get the whole project done in time for a good presentation. Our biggest problem at this point is putting together a presentation and eventually a paper that has everything we want to talk about, ALL represented with the data. There have been a lot of big ideas floating around the design room over the last week, and in a large regard they are just, "wouldn't this be cool," suggestions. These always scare me, because i know as soon as we make a design idea that is not represented from our data we run the risk of putting out an implementation that fails in some regard. My rule now is if any design idea comes up we need to be able to show where it emerged in the data.
This is tough because there are many good design ideas that I might like to see in our system. In most cases though these are interface issues and they don't really have a place in our system just yet. I am convinced that our project up to now is to grind in the foundations of a system; we need to see the purpose of the system, run with a few major ideas, and then worry about these other issues when they come up in future iterations.
Hopefully this next week can go smoothly and we can put the information we want both into a presentation and a paper. I am starting to get a little bummed that we are so close to being done. I feel like there is still lots of potential with this project and we could really do a lot with it given the time.
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