So as I'm entering my 9th semester back at Uni, I'm looking over what all I still have left to do. And it honestly scares me ( Read more... )

So winter break is over and I am back in class... Both classes were taken because of theoretical ease (Intro to Logic should be simple after Discrete Math, which is just Intro to Logic and basic Set Theory crammed into one, and last time Software Engineering was taught, the entire grade was one book report.) but both classes are looking to be a ( Read more... )

I know I didn't post anything here about this before, but I participated in the regional qualifiers for a programming competition over the weekend ( Read more... )

Acronyms are to be capitalized, bolded, or punctuated as such. Especially with short acronyms such as pdf, cdf, clt, etc ( Read more... )

Godspeed, Mr. Wizard

And thanks, from everyone who watched you growing up...

I noticed something interesting earlier today...  Only an 80's band could make 'enemies' rhyme with 'eyes' and not sound like morons in the process.  (Of course, given my predilection for 80's rock and metal, this may very well be prejudice speaking...)  But it brings up an interesting point, for which I want to take up a moment of your time ( Read more... )

Sitting here, on this 3/14, one has to wonder what things were like on 3/14/1592....

And that joke is completely lost on the Europeans and the non-mathematicians...

The weekend was rather nice, with the show on Friday going rather well (aside from a dead guitar amp) the dinner with C&C going well (aside from me being half asleep), the showing of Mark of Zorro was much fun (except for SgtRocknRoll 's legs falling asleep...) and D&D (aside from taking time away from homework ( Read more... )

I finally got off my duff and scheduled for Spring.  Unfortunately, the History of Math class I wanted to take is a 400-level class with 300-level pre-requisites.  So I'm out of luck on that one ( Read more... )

Recently I've regained contact with an old friend, _The_Coyote_ whom I haven't seen or talked to in three years.  After spending the past few days getting caught up on her blog, having an hour-long phone conversation, and discussing Mesoamerican time measurements in her blog (not LJ, if you're looking...) I realized something ( Read more... )