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textbook prices, torch juggling, and a snake breeder
I just had my first day of classes and I’m excited about the semester, but depressed about how much money I just spent on books. This semester hit a lot harder than last semester where the most I think I spent was maybe $60 on a book. Let’s run down a list of [...]
end of the semester rush
I don’t know how, but I got a B on my last algorithms homework. I rushed through half of it because I ran out of time. For one I straight-up put “I don’t know how I’m supposed to get this from that” and he still gave me half credit on that problem. [...]
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the wily C# shuffle
My programming languages professor is quite the wily one. For our last programming assignment in there, we’re to write a fraction class in both Java and Smalltalk, as part of our coverage of object-oriented languages. I asked if I could do C# and Smalltalk, since I really like C# and, darn it, everyone [...]
sloppy summing
Ha ha ha, my sucky summation skills suck slightly less than simply sidestepping summation-solving. Let me explain: I had my only midterm last week in algorithms and I thought I did terribly, in part because of how I solved the following summation: . That summation came about when solving the recurrence [...]
how I made my languages professor twitch
Today in programming languages, the professor started going over Lisp. I was surprised to learn that function names are case insensitive in Lisp, so if you declare a function called incrementAll, you can invoke it by calling INCREMENTALL, incrementall, or any other case variant. I forgot about this because I’m not used to [...]
proof by failure of imagination
In programming languages today, someone had to answer this question:
Prove the contention on page 40 that when a CLU iterator terminates, indicating to its parent for loop that there are no more values, the iterator’s activation record is actually at the top of the stack.
— Advanced Programming Language Design by Raphael Finkel, p. 61
The guy’s [...]
first graduate classes
My first day of graduate classes were Thursday, and I must say having gone through them has made me feel better about this semester overall. Before Thursday, I had been stressing out because this is my first semester of graduate school and I plan on working 20 hours/week. Full-time for graduate students is [...]
independent study, a death in the family, and my car
Pfhew, so I’m back in school and things are more hectic than I figured. Work at Lexmark has been pretty steady, as I work my 15 hours per week, but the other stuff has been up in the air. I had a meeting with my professor yesterday to discuss work on the Baby [...]
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Netflix and alpha-beta pruning
Nooo, Netflix, why must you torment me?? I got an email from them today saying that Watch Instantly now works fully on Mac, which is good news, even though I was already using the beta, because I figured they’d have a lot more Watch Instantly content. I think they do have a lot [...]
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