It's been an awfully long time since I last posted. I guess technically I graduated from my Master's program a year ago. I've been working in software development since then. I'm very happy with the way my career seems to be shaping up, but some small part of me wants to be working full time on crazy little apps. My job right now does actually revolve around mobile apps, which is nice since I couldn't ask for better experience.
I released an app recently where you drag your finger along the screen to make funny sounds using a wave form fed into the audio systems of the Android device through a raw binary stream. It's fun, and was quick to make. I want to do little apps like that in my spare time.
One thing that has captivated me a bit lately is the idea of writing simulations in java. I watched an evolutionary psychology course on youtube recently and the professor described an exercise where scientists tested multiple strategies for the prisoner's dilemma using a computer simulation. That really caught my interest. I'm not sure that I'll do any formal research on it, but I'm definitely capable of writing software that simulates things like that, so I may tinker with some ideas just for fun.
