Vexation: Spending two days staring at a maze of code packed with classes and structs you've never heard of before, full of vectors in two different coordinate systems, one of which you cannot find a definition of, in an attempt to track down a sign error. Your desk is slowly buried under scratch papers marked with arrows projections, and possible coordinate axes.Elation: Finding yourself staring at a sketch that makes the error obvious. You found the problem! And you didn't make the mistake!
Frustration: Being unable to find a fellow grad student or post-doc or supervisor on this project ( you'd really prefer the grad student or post-doc) with whom you can check your brilliant conclusion to make sure it really is brilliant.
Trepidation: Realizing that fixing that error may well require informing one of the best muon experts you know that the code he wrote five years ago is wrong.
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1 comment:
Oh man.
Was there any concluding emotion for the encounter?
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