Education

I want to get into the education field, though I fear the pay wouldn't sustain my costs of living.  I think I'd be a good educator.  I think I'd be really good at developing a curriculum and then iterating and improving upon it year after year.  I think there are several subjects ranging from Engineering to Writing that I could do (the secret to engineering is to always be looking for a better way to do things; the secret to writing is to find a rhythm, be consistent, and to remember to give your audience a reason to continue reading your stuff). 

 Then again, I'd make a pretty kickass Computer Systems teacher/professor.  A recent idea I had was that it'd be possible to implement the rules for a game called Citadels into a computer program.  Obviously this would be biting off more than I can chew right now (so many things going on lately), but yet another thing to add to my "things I would do if I could retire tomorrow" list.  I *know* one of the most challenging things to do as a Computer Science/Engineer teacher is to come up for *meaningful* programming assignments.  Implementing yet-another-address-book (YAAB) is not exciting for beginner's.  One of my most memorable programs was writing War while my high school programming teacher taught us linked lists and arrays.  For a week straight, during every 45 minute block, I'd run the simulation between two automated War players and calculate who wins the most with a random deal.  I was able to do about 10,000 games in 45 minutes and the automated players typically won about 5,000 each.  Good times.  But yeah, Citadels would be fun for computer and human players.  Computer artificial intelligence would probably trump human actual intelligence, but with a simple client/server network protocol I'd be pretty confident that people could get plugged into distributed human vs. human games.  I think that'd be fun. 

And on a somewhat related to artificial intelligence note, you know I saw this story today.  That's all for now. 

Happy Educating!