After working very hard during the last couple of weeks on my study thesis, I finished the last chapters today. In short what I did was to implement a performance efficient spiking neural net simulator from scratch in C++, including interfaces for Octave/Matlab (oh, how ugly can an interface be!) and Ruby.

The time writing reminded me at the time when I was writing the Ruby Developers Guide book back in 2001. At the beginning, you need to force yourself to get some sentences written. But after a while they flow more and more fluent out of your mouth (hands).

Ah, should I mention that I wrote my study thesis in English? I did it mainly to get a wider audience, but also because sometimes it is easier to describe technical aspects in English than it is in German, because a lot of words in computer sciene are already in English. But I have still problems with commats and English grammar :)