Writing this week encompases the remainder of the preliminaries, plus the beginning of the background section. In this, I explain the mechanics of general Singular Value Decomposition and the Tucker decomposition, as well as the High-Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD) generalization. I’m not writing the abstract yet, as I’m not precisely sure what the full scope of the experiments will cover yet. It’ll depend on the results, so I’ll probably write the abstract last (or right before the dedications, anyway).

The pagination guidelines are interesting: the copyright page is second, but it begins the numbering with “iii”. So the second page is numbered third? (Is something inserted post-defense between the title and copyright pages?)

I’m going to pwn this dissertation.

Oh, and I’m a member of another honor society now: Golden Key. That makes five honor societies; all I’m waiting for now is Upsilon Pi Epsilon, who should have already inducted me according to their criteria.