Tag Archives: academia

how I made my languages professor twitch

Published: 13 October 2009
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 [...]
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proof by failure of imagination

Published: 15 September 2009
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 [...]
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first graduate classes

Published: 29 August 2009
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 [...]
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Newspeak and the Others

Published: 20 August 2009
I was a student in a high school that had a really big, older building that had lots of floors. When going to class one day, my classroom was at the end of the hall and I noticed that there was a stairwell to the left of it, going down, that I had never [...]
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visits and kung fu

Published: 15 May 2009
I’m at my parents’ house with Jon, wrapping up the last of our travelling around Kentucky. We visited his family for three days and have been visiting mine for the past two; we’ll head back to Lexington this evening. I’ve taken a lot of photos of the new kittens at my parents’, as [...]
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grad party, friend code, KDE 4

Published: 7 May 2009
Oy, what a week!  I’ve worked at Lexmark every day since Monday, getting things finalized there and today was my last day.  My manager took me out to lunch with about twelve coworkers, which was very pleasant, getting to sit around and have a real lunch with these folks, instead of just grabbing a chicken [...]
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apartment, HP, grad. classes

Published: 23 April 2009
Pfhew, so let’s see what’s going on in my life, since it’s been some time since I last updated with a real entry. I’m moving this weekend to my new apartment, and it’s going to suck like all moves suck, but this one I’m hoping will be better, at least in some ways, than [...]
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admitted

Published: 25 March 2009
I am pleased to inform you that you have been conditionally admitted to the University of Kentucky Graduate School for Fall 2009. In order to remove this conditional status the following document(s) should be submitted to the Graduate School: Conditional for submission of official University of Kentucky transcript showing an awarded Bachelor’s degree. [...]
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taxes, a pot pie, and Cylon speculation

Published: 15 March 2009
Yarr, I should go to bed, and probably will do so after I post this entry. It’s spring break and I’m enjoying the time off, though I’m still busy. I have to do my taxes and I so don’t want to, but I kind of need the money I’m sure to get back, [...]
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GRE results

Published: 5 March 2009
I should be going to sleep right now but I thought I’d make a quick post to say that I have completed the GRE and can move on with my life!! Shazam! I ended up with a 650 Verbal and 660 Quantitative, which is lower than I expected on Quantitative but higher on [...]
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