One of the regular requirements of grad school is total immersion in a particular topic. During the most intense periods, the subject matter often finds its way into my dreams. While I won’t attempt to describe them in detail, I will just say that having dreams where dynamic Bayesian networks play a critical role is at least a bit disconcerting.
I’ve just finished powering through twenty papers on multicast security, and rather than blog further about it, it’s probably better simply to go to sleep and try not to dream about hash functions.