March 2012
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Wednesday Feb 29, 2012
watched daily lives of high school boys ep8
11am AI, basically learned probability stuff for like the third time
noon, commnets, more on TCP and fairness (and fairness issues such as working with UDP, or parallel TCP connections), then started network layer stuff
1pm stochastics, went over homework
2pm software engineering, overview of the virtual machines that were set up (how to access...
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Tuesday Feb 28, 2012
(yesterday) watched nisemonogatari ep8 well that was certainly a thing that happened. but why did they do that what is going on with this show
1pm took subway to manhattan. At some point, the train just stopped at a station for like 15 minutes with no explanation. Later the train started moving again but stopped moving when it was in a tunnel between two stations. After a long time of not moving,...
February 2012
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Monday Feb 27, 2012
watched amagami ss+ ep6
noon, discrete math. Went over algorithm stuff like complexity and that kind of stuff except with actual math unlike during data structures and algorithms class when it was more general
1pm went to computer center, fixed up OS assignment and then handed it in
took subway home
worked on stochastics homework and it took way longer than it should have. Only really did the...
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Sunday Feb 26, 2012
caught up with youtube videos I missed yesterday and worked on the AI project, was able to get it to correctly output the othello legal moves and an ASCII interface to represent the board
(was originally going to do stochastics homework but it looked like a lot so I worked on the AI project instead)
iyashikei sundays, sketchbook ep6 (I think) and taisho ep11
I think that’s all I did today
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Saturday Feb 25, 2012
(yesterday) watched kill me baby ep8 then skype chat with @miluda
10am took subway uptown, waited at a dunkin donuts for @ephshi, @mr_meatspin was also there
car journey to the land of new jersey, in which we picked up @lilyki and @necorare and went to 8otb, there was listening of the new hori-zun cd and @renko_’s album involved
I was able to perfect play Someday with 29996_ as my first...
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Friday Feb 24, 2012
9am discrete math exam, it was a fair exam though I stupidly forgot that 0 does not divide 0, in one of the questions about equivalence relations and thus the set is not transitive
11am commnets, more specifics about tcp and how it deals with flow control and congestion control
1pm went to computer center finished up OS homework
2pm stochastics, uhhhhhhh I don’t remember but at the break...
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halcy replied to your post: Thursday Feb 23, 2012
Hoho, what is your discrete math like? Approximation methods galore?
it’s fairly straightforward stuff, I don’t think we’ve done any approximation methods. Mostly just like, general math things that are familiar (like high school stuff) but in much more depth and actual mathy terminology. Let’s see… going through my...
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Thursday Feb 23, 2012
watched daily lives of high school boys ep7, rewatched yuruyuri ep4 (picked at semi-random)
12:30 went to restaurant with uncle
3pm software engineering project meeting (I kept going back and forth between the 2nd and 8th floor because no one was there and I was like “maybe they’re at the other place”)
4pm software engineering, more textbook stuff regarding UML: event trace /...
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Wednesday Feb 22, 2012
11am, AI. Stuff about the state-of-the-art computer programs in various games (chess, checkers, othello, go, bridge, scrabble, poker)
noon, commnets, got homework back, then went over the homework due today, then more on pipelining
1pm, stochastics, went over the homework due today
2pm software engineering, went over Java Swing stuff and then textbook material (UML, entity-relationship...
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Tuesday Feb 21, 2012
instead of watching anime I watched some more runnyrunny999 videos on youtube
2pm jlab, except professor didn’t show up until about 4pm, so lab partner and I worked on software engineering project, found some useful stuff. Then professor came and then asked about some op-amp stuff and made us do a thing in LTSpice
6pm operating systems, got hw #2 back (got a 9.5/10 with 1 point extra...
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Monday Feb 20, 2012
couldn’t decide on an anime to watch, ended up rewatching an episode of yuruyuri (chosen at semi-random, I think it was 7)
spent the majority of the day watching runnyrunny999 videos
just… there’s so many of them and they’re all so good
iyashikei mondays, hidamari s3ep3, aria s3ep4
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Sunday Feb 19, 2012
watched nisemonogatari ep7 then the rest of the technika tournament stream
watched a bunch of runnyrunny999 cooking videos because one of them was on the youtube frontpage and it looked good and then I just kept watching them
worked on OS assignment #4
played some tf2
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Saturday Feb 18, 2012
watched amagami ss+ ep7, kill me baby ep7
played some tf2
spotify code quest contest from 2pm to 6pm, got one problem out of eight: the easiest problem that was worded really weirdly and a lot of people couldn’t get it after a lot of attempts (it took me 3 attempts). Spent way too long on that, and couldn’t concentrate very well on working on the other ones. Considered giving up at...
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Friday Feb 17, 2012
watched daily lives of high school boys ep6, and yurumates ha
went to post office to pick up package from @nforza26 here’s some pics there was also some stuff from @renko_ then went to staples
and I guess I’ll upload one pic here too, sure why not, look at all the gumi
played some tf2
worked on OS assignment, I think I am done, just gotta look over stuff and make sure...
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Thursday Feb 16, 2012
1pm went to restaurant with uncle
studied a bit for software engineering quiz
4pm software engineering quiz, it was ok but the past year’s quiz #1 was definitely way easier
4:30pm pioneer office, discussed the software project and other things
6pm artificial intelligence, stuff from last time but how to adjust it to deal with a limited depth or limited time. Transposition tables,...
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Wednesday Feb 15, 2012
Friday schedule since we have this Friday off
9am discrete math, maxterms, disjunctive normal form, simplifying, complete sets of boolean functions, half/full adders, then went over what would be on the exam (next Friday)
11am went home (professor for commnets and stochastics cancelled class today, I’d normally get out at 4pm)
3pm napped for ~2 hours
worked on OS homework
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halcy replied to your post: Wednesday Feb 8, 2012
Hey, did you go into simmulated annealing more deeply, and can write a paragraph or two about it? Or was it as brushed over as it was in our Algorithms 1 class… I never really got what it is about :T
Oh whoops I didn’t notice this reply until just now. It wasn’t really covered in much depth, I guess there’s way more info on...
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Tuesday Feb 14, 2012
Watched Morita-san OVA
2pm jlab, professor spent about 40 minutes talking about the project (mostly tangentially related things related to audio), which will be a karaoke machine. Then worked on lab #10 and didn’t finish as usual
6pm operating systems, went over assignment #1 (got 5% off for not handling all errors related to partial writes and closing the file) and then learned about...
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Monday Feb 13, 2012
watched denpa onna OVA
Noon, discrete math. Boolean Algebra theorems and axioms. Definitely more in-depth than the stuff from DLD. Because it’s actually mathy this time.
1pm, went to computer center, printed out OS homework, turned it in
1:15pm took subway home
worked on resume because why don’t I already have one
iyashikei mondays, hidamari s3ep2, aria s3ep3
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Sunday Feb 12, 2012
watched kill me baby ep6, nisemonogatari ep6
worked on commnets homework and then stochastics homework
iyashikei sundays, sketchbook ep5, taisho ep10
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Saturday Feb 11, 2012
Watched Daily Lives of HS Boys ep5 (probably the best episode so far, in my opinion), Amagami SS+ ep6
finished up the OS assignment
worked some more on that drawing from yesterday here it is, I still don’t know how to do eyes properly; constantly ctrl+z because I am like how does this work
did three or four of the problems from last year’s spotify code contest, they are surprisingly...
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Friday Feb 10, 2012
9am discrete math, Chinese remainder theorem & corollary, pseudorandom numbers, and also went over homework stuff. Also some logic gate stuff which was basically just review of DLD
11am commnets, went over assignment that was handed in yesterday, with a lot of pointless “why doesn’t this work out correctly” when it turned out the professor just wrote the wrong thing on the...
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Thursday Feb 9, 2012
1pm went to restaurant with uncle
2pm worked on OS assignment #2, changed a thing to a fixed length char array rather than finding the length of the string and allocating/freeing the space each time
4pm software engineering, more textbook stuff: hierarchical vs ‘egoless’ approach, estimating costs, risk, risk reduction, project plan, capturing requirements, contributors, types of...
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Wednesday Feb 8, 2012
11am AI. First choice hill climbing, random walk, simulated annealing, local beam search, stochastic beam search, genetic algorithms, online search, competitive ratio. Games (adversarial search) - deterministic, turn-taking, 2-player, zero-sum games of perfect information. Formal definition of game (initial state, action function applied to state, result function applied to a state and an action,...
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Tuesday Feb 7, 2012
2pm jlab, lab #9. Went through pretty much the whole thing this time, though skipping some parts and wondering what the heck is going on, as usual
5:50pm went to 4th floor and got some Doritos because
6pm OS. Virtual computers and how they work in memory: text, data, bss, stack. Learned about the exec system call and how it does things in memory, how the first function called (in a C program)...
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Monday Feb 6, 2012
Watched Amagami SS+ ep5
noon, discrete math. Euler’s theorem and Ferma’s corollary. Then went over how to do the homework that I thought we were supposed to do but apparently we weren’t supposed to do because we don’t know how to do it yet until today after he went over how to do it.
1pm got financial aid thing, took subway home.
worked on commnets homework, reading the...
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Sunday Feb 5, 2012
watched kill me baby ep5
worked on operating systems homework for most of the day. Ended up writing a program to do automated collection and averaging of data for various buffer sizes, when the time I spent debugging the code could’ve easily been used manually copying/pasting the data into excel, but oh well.
worked on commnets homework and read that article on Spotify we were supposed to...
Anonymous asked: aww saturday wasn't that productive for you :( do you get in any social interaction btw!? i'm sure you do, you probably just don't blog about it :) also how DOES bittorrent work exactly? Thanks :) and you seem really dedicated, good luck with everyting!
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Saturday Feb 4, 2012
watched daily lives of high school boys ep4
1pm, played some tf2; was going to stop at like 2pm but ended up going to 4pm
Somewhere between 4:30pm and 5pm, took a nap until 7pm, woke up going “oh god why’d I take a nap, now it’s 7pm”
youtube tumblr etc
worked on homework for discrete math
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Friday Feb 3, 2012
9am discrete math; divisibility, greatest common divisor, euclidian algorithm, fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
11am commnets, discussed p2p networks (i.e. how bittorrent works), then started on transport layer protocols (udp,tcp) in more detail. Went through an example of a simple protocol and then introducing errors and ways to correct for those errors, eventually arriving at the tcp model
...
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Thursday Feb 2, 2012
1pm went to vietnamese restaurant with uncle
2pm did some stochastics homework
4pm software engineering, more textbook stuff. Went over some of the characteristics/practices of extreme programming (with the professor having a very obvious dislike of it)
5pm one-hour break, went to computer center, got an email from the school about various things relevant to programming and jobs/contests and...
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halcy replied to your post: Lol I did have to look it up :P It still counts for something though! What year are you in there? Why did you decide to go to Cooper Union over like NYU or Columbia, for example?
From reading your posts, it seems like a good school, so hooray~ (P.S. come do an exchange semester in Karlsruhe :U )
no such thing as exchange semesters!!
nazerine asked: I'd always thought CU was pretty famous, but I guess I only knew about it because my brother applied there (dunno if he got in but he ended up getting in to RISD and that was his first choice so yeah)
Anonymous asked: Lol I did have to look it up :P It still counts for something though! What year are you in there? Why did you decide to go to Cooper Union over like NYU or Columbia, for example?
Anonymous asked: Omg Cooper Union is like really difficult to get in! Congratss
Anonymous asked: Which college do you go to?
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Wednesday Feb 1, 2012
oh hey it’s february
11am, AI. Sensorless problem, advanced search strategies (heuristics, best-first search, A* search)
noon, commnets. Went over homework.
1pm stochastics. Mapping a PDF in terms of x to y (technical term is something I don’t have written down so I don’t know what it is actually) and then Markov/Chebychev inequalities. And then stuff about reliability but the...
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Monday Jan 30, 2012 - Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
Monday Jan 30, 2012:
12pm discrete math, more on algebraic structures (groups, monoids, rings, fields)
1pm took subway home, then went to subways
was really full after I ate the sub
played some tf2
then later it was really cold and I was shivering but I got the feeling it wasn’t because of the room temperature or something
stayed in bed for several hours with a coat on, didn’t...
January 2012
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Sunday Jan 29, 2012
watched Nisemonogatari ep4. What’s even going on in this show now all I see is fanservice
played some tf2, was doing pretty badly so I decided to just mess around as demoman with stickyjumper+caber on cp_foundry and ended up doing pretty well
read lab #8 for jlab and then worked on commnets homework
drew 30 minute walfmilu thing
felt like drawing more stuff so I did. here’s one...
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Saturday Jan 28, 2012
watched amagami ss+ ep4 and kill me baby ep4
played tf2
worked on discrete math homework, it was very straightforward for the most part
worked on software engineering project, summary: java is kinda annoying because I am used to working with pointers and memory things
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Friday Jan 27, 2012
(yesterday) watched the rest of Morita-san s2
9am discrete math: equivalence classes/relations, matrix representations of relations, started algebraic structures
11am commnets: web caches, FTP, SMTP, POP/IMAP, DNS. Went over an example of how to send an email from an email address that isn’t yours, through telnet and using SMTP commands.
1pm went to mcdonald’s and then computer...
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Thursday Jan 26, 2012
watched Morita-san up to s2 ep4 or so
4pm software engineering, more java overview
5pm break, went to pioneer office to discuss software project
6pm AI, more examples of toy problems and then some uninformed search algorithms (BFS, DFS, uniform-cost search, depth-limited search, and one more I’m forgetting)
8pm went home, watched Daily Lives of High School Boys ep3 and at some point...
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Wednesday Jan 25, 2012
11am AI, different types of agents, representations, intro to simple search strategies, problem definitions (including transition models, path costs, etc),examples of toy problems (vacuum world, 8-puzzle)
noon, commnets, application layer protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP)
1pm stochastics, probability cumulative functions and some things about them. Exponential distributions (memoryless)
2pm software...
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halcy replied to your post: halcy replied to your post: where do you go to…
Neat~! Going to do a Masters afterwards? (And, 3rd year… are you graduating soon? Started on a thesis yet?)
Expected graduation is in 2013, also no I am not doing a Masters degree and I don’t think we have to do a thesis; we have a final senior project instead. Unless that involves a thesis, I don’t...
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endless-sorcerer replied to your post: halcy replied to your post: where do you go to…
You are probably the first person who has ever been asked “Can you fix digivices?”; how do you feel about that?
I am fairly indifferent to this [possible] fact
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halcy replied to your post: where do you go to school? what is your major? have you posted about that before?
I’ve been wondering this, but are you doing like, a Bachelors, or a Masters, or Something Else Entirely?
Bachelor’s degree
jankn replied to your post: where do you go to school? what is your major? have you posted about that before?
Can you fix digivices?
Possibly
sunima asked: where do you go to school? what is your major? have you posted about that before?
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Tuesday Jan 24, 2012
1pm took subway to school
2pm jlab, professor talked a lot about the course and what we were expected to do, and then some examples of past years’ projects. Got let out at about 4pm (it usually ends at 6pm)
4pm went to computer center (802, rather), worked on some of the Java project
6pm, Operating Systems. Overview of the structure of the course, then some stuff about kernels and...
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Monday Jan 23, 2012
watched nisemonogatari ep3
11am, took subway to school but with a bunch of unnecessary transfers. Also on the bridge right before Chinatown, the train conductor played some Chinese music over the intercom and wished everyone a happy Chinese New Year which was kinda cool
noon, discrete math, digraphs and their properties
1pm walked to grandma’s apartment, had lunch. Bunch of relatives were...
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Dream - Wizards and Kanye West (Jan 23 / morning)
this dream
There was some kind of wizard competition thing where a bunch of wizards had to complete an objective in the least amount of time
there was an house and in one of the rooms there was like some kind of summoned monster and the wizards went in one by one to defeat it using magic
I think I was a supervisor wizard or something; I was standing in the next room (which was hidden) and...