Someday, I am going to stop printing out solutions for any of the CO programs I write, the print out will be fairly simple:
“Solution Verified”
or
“Failed to Verify Solution”
I like results, I like the creative process, but results make me happy. The way there, fun as it is, is often filled with anxiety. It is a lot like being in a mode of transportation for a while.
Ze Panda
I need to write a relatively long paper somehow related to my semester long study of dystopian fiction. So far we are down to dystopian fiction 1, me none. I really like the stories, I’d be happy to write one if that is what was required, but writing about the meta-theory of dystopian fiction has [...]
It is all over the web, there are about 50 mentions of this on Reddit, there might be another bubble out there, except it doesn’t feel like one. See back when there was that other bubble, I lived in another country, was there for more than a month a year, and things looked very different. [...]
26 seconds of mistakes, many hours of pain. At least this thing ends tomorrow (or so I hope), more time to sell to the other taskmasters, and analyze symmetries and sampling on how to place cities. The Flaming Lips are on campus on Saturday, all a part of the crazy weekend that is Spring Weekend. [...]
I remember the days, not long gone, when programs I wrote did not run for hours, or minutes, not even for seconds. And here I stand, celebrating the ability to finish a relatively simple instance, of a relatively well studied problem in 26 seconds. Admittedly this is exciting since it gets this to a point [...]