Things as they are right now
Does anyone else find it funny that I'm taking an intro level programing course during the same semester that I intend to implement a massively parallel factoring algorithm optimized for either Beowulf or Mosix clustering?
If that doesn't give you an idea of what I've been doing all semester, I'm taking the second semester of intro-level programing, and an intro level cryptography class. Guess which one is 400-level. Crypto is a fun class, we've done about 2 semesters of Abstract Algebra in roughly two weeks. So I've now had the ultimate crash course in Group Theory, Field Theory, Ring Theory and Galois Theory. For those who aren't sure what all that is, don't worry, being that we learned it in two weeks, neither am I [grin]. Of course I jest, I do understand most of that, except Galois theory, but I'm sure we'll do a better job nailing that down before elliptic curves. Anyway, 400-level Linear Algebra is fun too, it's like redoing systems of linear equations from Algebra II from high school, but with all the theory about why it works attached. Believe me, despite how that sounds, it's not easy.
Ok, I'm going to go play Go now.
If that doesn't give you an idea of what I've been doing all semester, I'm taking the second semester of intro-level programing, and an intro level cryptography class. Guess which one is 400-level. Crypto is a fun class, we've done about 2 semesters of Abstract Algebra in roughly two weeks. So I've now had the ultimate crash course in Group Theory, Field Theory, Ring Theory and Galois Theory. For those who aren't sure what all that is, don't worry, being that we learned it in two weeks, neither am I [grin]. Of course I jest, I do understand most of that, except Galois theory, but I'm sure we'll do a better job nailing that down before elliptic curves. Anyway, 400-level Linear Algebra is fun too, it's like redoing systems of linear equations from Algebra II from high school, but with all the theory about why it works attached. Believe me, despite how that sounds, it's not easy.
Ok, I'm going to go play Go now.