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[kosine90]

I went to the physics colloquium at Pomona today. The topic was "Gravitational Waves from Nascent Black Hole." (hmm.. what the heck is it?) Well, I didn't get what on earth the speaker was talking about. It's literally as though he's talking in a different language; which is actually true. (hyper-accreting black hole? failure of neutrino-

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[salimma]

Yap; it can be good to know what kinds of research are taking place in the field. Especially once you start having papers to write =)

The word 'colloquium' has positive associations for me this week.. my 8am class this Thursday is cancelled, and we have to attend a colloquium instead. Cool =)

[kosine90]

yeah, I really enjoy all of this :) (I think I love college!)

By the way, I had my CS midterm today -- wasn't really good, but ... wasn't really bad either, I hope. We're doing functional programming right now (it's fun! recursion, recursion, recursion...)

[salimma]

The fun part is when you have to convert a recursive function to an iterative one =) Do I hear 'accumulator' ? Haha.

Which functional language is used at Mudd? Scheme, or Haskell? Or even ML..

[kosine90]

hehehe.. there is this language that is developed by a Mudd prof called Rex. Supposedly, rex 'combined' different functional languages. I heard a bit about ML and Lisp. What's the most popular one?

by the way... what is it about foo and bar? a generic name for functions/variable?

[salimma]

Hehe =) Foo and Bar are generic names for functions, but they came from the word 'foobar', apparently invented by someone in the US military during World War II. It stands for 'effed up beyond recognition'

Finding getting back to having deadlines rather tough at times too.. but you'll get used to it. How's the social life there? Or is this when you start laughing hysterically? :)

Rex sounds like this scripting language that IBM has.. hmm.. will look it up later; got to run.