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an abstract and a cold
Jon and I started rewatching the Quantum Leap series from the 90s last night. We’d talked before about how we both used to love it. I never saw the episodes in order, and I know I haven’t seen all of them. My dad and I would watch reruns on the SciFi channel [...]
sleep and bellies
Darra, my software engineering partner, sent me what she’d worked up for our presentation tomorrow in class. I just finished going over it, and I’ve also finished my algorithms homework, meaning… I’m free!!! Of course, at this point I’m pretty much just free to go to bed, but it’s still nice to [...]
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paper done and slow-ass clinic
I finished my programming paper! I’ve sent a copy to Jon to review it and should hopefully mail it off to my professor tonight. After the semester’s over, I plan on releasing my programs for that class on here, probably under the GPL as I’ve done in the past. I’ll stick that [...]
page nine and Santa humor
Well, the ice on my car has melted and the brief snow we had this morning is over, so now it just looks like your average gray winter day out there. (On a side note, you people what spell “gray” with an ‘e’ wig me out. I’m lookin’ at you, Melissa.) I [...]
finisher of summaries and snuggler of the sick
I’ve been pretty productive today, considering it’s a Saturday and I usually try to slack off on Saturdays. I have accomplished the following:
Finished the final three paper summaries for my software engineering class, which is fortunate since they were due today;
Wrote a good part of a new layout for this site (guess it doesn’t [...]
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 [...]
textbook prices, torch juggling, and a snake breeder