I like this one:
‘Quasi-maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference in Dynamic Models with Time-Varying Covariances’. I think I should start a collection, something like a Hundred Article Titles Which I Find Fascinating. This one sounds like a poem almost, especially the ‘time-varying covariances’ bit.
I have to say, I truly envy the new students of the University of Glasgow. Imagine:
1) new monitors for the Library have been bought and partially installed (I’m writing on one of such renovated computers, very pleasant);
2) the Library opening hours have been increased by some incredible amount: 7.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. 7 DAYS A WEEK, God, this is truly incredible. Fancy the Library at 1 a.m. on Saturday? You and the janitors. Spooky a bit, but a truly worthwhile experience!
3) they are building some mysterious ‘Hub’ right in front of the Library, which will contain offices and something else, I’m not sure; I hope it will have some nice coffee sold there.
Now. The main thing. DISSERTATION. I think I would actually name this after the ballet that we saw the other day: RIDE THE BEAST. It was indeed some monster-taming process; at some point, I felt a bit panicked: I was completely lost in what I had written, and did not know how to make head or tail of it. Now it’s in my bag, printed and awaiting the last super-scrutinised attack from my weary eyes. Some 70-page predatory animal, tied down and zipped in a documents compartment of my laptop case.
Did I enjoy it? I actually have to say, yes. I actually have a suspicion that everyone who says things like ‘I’m fed up tired sick of it stupid worthless waste of time’ (which means everyone) in fact are… coquetting (is there such a word?). In fact, I don’t think I’m the only one who has enjoyed it (well, at some point, of course, not all of it). It’s just that I’m not afraid to admit it.
(Hm… familiar situation, has got me into trouble before, hope this time it won’t…)
Well, that is to say, I enjoyed some of it, at some point in time. It might be a childish, immature, worthless from the scientific point of view pile of 71 sheets; but I have to admit it, I feel some warmth towards it. Of course, next time I do it, I will do it in a totally different way; yes, I will construct a model, and I WILL take trouble to collect the data for it, and I WILL use rolling techni… Ok, I shall stop here, before I say something which I will later regret.
(Hm, the ‘next time’ bit worries me… what a slip of the tongue.)
Now, I have to have a look at Rishab’s one to see if he used cApitalIsaTion correctly. We’re almost alone in the whole building, hah, it’s about 1 in the morning I think…
