Hit me, er...I mean Fold

[trickykitty]

So now I owe smokedamage because I've had a couple bad nights of Texas Hold'em in a row. Two good hands both beaten out badly. Only one really good hand, Full House, which manage to beat out two other guys' Straights. But apparently not good enough stakes to walk away ahead. I offered to put in my own money but I was told, "no, I got it," only to get it waved over my head afterwards. Damn cards just weren't in my favor. But hey, we all got told by one of the players that we're just amatures. What do you expect with only a $5 buy-in and chip values of .05, .10, .25, and .50?

In other news, I turned down the job offer in favor of not making the McNair people upset. And I finally withdrew from the C programming class. Tomorrow morning I meet with the people at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital so that they know who I am when I start running experiments on their dyslexic children. So must go and get sleep now so that I'm in good form for the meeting.

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Oh, and the ultimate goal of the research, at least for me, is to be able to create a neural network which shows the various brain areas involved. This would mostly be the hypothalamus and basal ganglia. If I can get good data from the adult population then I can get the network running and then lesion it to predict what kind of results we will have with the children before testing them.

Another practical goal is to be able to have a means of diagnosing prior to reading-level. If the children do in fact have a problem with categorization, then other non-reading tests can be administered well before reading-age. It may also help in creating tools that teachers could use across the board with all students in helping them to read better.

Most of this research is the primary interest of the post-doc who is guiding my own research interests. It's more specific than what I would prefer to be researching, but I'm getting a lot of valuable experience.