17 December 2006 by Tam.

Olga and I met yesterday.  We got our survey requests for CREU so we want to make one final pass on the website and make sure it’s not too terrible.  (One page somewhere still says “And it will be some text here.” Oops!)

I am not totally pleased with our progress this semester, though we did accomplish some things.  I hope we have some time to work on things over the break, and I hope next semester will be a bit less hectic so we can really get somewhere.

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11 December 2006 by Tam.

It’s finals week. Normally this is a relaxing week for me because I “just” have a few tests and everything else is done. But this week I have about 15 sections of homework for my two math classes due, plus a 4-5 page paper, plus two scary tests. This is my worst end-of-semester ever.

So don’t expect much from me this week, is what I’m saying. I don’t think we’re going to meet.

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8 December 2006 by Tam.

From today’s meeting with Olga I have a copy of a big page of handwritten notes about everything that can be measured about a patient (weight, blood pressure, etc.) and what the expected ranges might be.  Olga was an endocrinologist, so she had lots of good subject knowledge, but we had to do a lot of unit conversions since she worked in Russia and they use metric there, of course.

(That sounds simple, and in some cases it is - kilograms to pounds or something.  You can just type it into Google - something like “40 kg in lbs” - and get an answer.  But for some things like A1C test results they really use totally different units for both numerator and denominator and the units are not common ones.  It helped that we found some pages about the specific medical conversions.)

Olga doesn’t have a copier, so we had to figure out how to get me a copy of the notes.  We ended up scanning them in and printing them out.  It’s fun how computers are replacing all the other machines.  (Olga has a lot of computers in her basement!)

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2 December 2006 by Tam.

Today is my birthday.  OK, yes, that’s irrelevant.

Last week was fall break and Thanksgiving, and I didn’t get that UML diagram done.  It was kind of a pointless meeting this week for that reason.  I felt bad about that.  We mostly talked some more about data distributions, which I guess is going to be our next task - figuring out what data we expect so we can go write some code to put in that data, and then we’ll have data to start working with.

It’s turning into a digraph again!

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