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lederhosenAt my last PhD meeting, about a month ago, we agreed that I was going to estimate the pressure under five contact lens designs (call 'em A, B, C, D, and E). Then we'd look at photos of said lenses on the eye, compare them to my predictions, and see how well I did.
Instead, this is what I get:
"Here are pictures of lenses A, B, C, E, F, G, and H (the latter three being lenses I can't model, because I've never been given the necessary data for them!) But we're not going to tell you which one is which - your job is to use your predictions to figure that out for yourself. Oh, and we don't have all the pictures yet, so we've only got five sets of photos, we left out the other two. And we also left out lens D, because we don't have pics of that either. And by the way, the brightness level isn't constant between different photos, so you can't compare them on absolute brightness, only on relative brightness within any one photo."
So I have to work out which of the five lenses I've done, minus the one that I know was left out, matches which of the five photos they've given me, knowing that two more of the lenses I've done may not actually appear in that data set.
I can't remember. Does the man who owns a goldfish live next to the couple who enjoy yachting, or is the woman who drinks milk a communist? If I knew that, maybe I could work out how I'm supposed to do this.
Instead, this is what I get:
"Here are pictures of lenses A, B, C, E, F, G, and H (the latter three being lenses I can't model, because I've never been given the necessary data for them!) But we're not going to tell you which one is which - your job is to use your predictions to figure that out for yourself. Oh, and we don't have all the pictures yet, so we've only got five sets of photos, we left out the other two. And we also left out lens D, because we don't have pics of that either. And by the way, the brightness level isn't constant between different photos, so you can't compare them on absolute brightness, only on relative brightness within any one photo."
So I have to work out which of the five lenses I've done, minus the one that I know was left out, matches which of the five photos they've given me, knowing that two more of the lenses I've done may not actually appear in that data set.
I can't remember. Does the man who owns a goldfish live next to the couple who enjoy yachting, or is the woman who drinks milk a communist? If I knew that, maybe I could work out how I'm supposed to do this.
