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| Sunday, May 10th, 2009 | | 6:43 am |
Good way to meet your neighbors: shopvaccing the basement. | | Friday, May 1st, 2009 | | 9:47 pm |
I'm not dead
Moving house means that I've got no internet briefly. Installer is coming in tomorrow. Meanwhile I think I've have figured out Euler 88. Wow that was pretty. the minimal sum-product number of length 12000 is 12096: 84, 9, 4, 2, 2 and 11995 1's. Other things I wrote recently (this one for Euler 60): a reference counting garbage collector. For integers. I also got a new computer. It eats your computer for lunch. Possibly literally; this thing is huge. Vorn | | Friday, April 24th, 2009 | | 7:30 pm |
I'm kind of a nerd.
Today I did math on a blackboard for the first time in years. It was exhilerating. | | Monday, March 16th, 2009 | | 5:38 pm |
In my PHP class, the professor is asserting that the overhead for dropping out of PHP and back into HTML starts to stack up over many iterations of a loop. I said that I didn't find that likely, that it was sensible for the interpreter to break it down into essentially equivalent operations as it parses the file the first time. Unfortunately I can't find any actual data on this, likely due to a lack of decent search terms. So I turn to the Experts, that is to say, you guys. What do you think? | | Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | | 12:09 pm |
<Champ> "Oh, you're so strong! I know you ate my mate, but I love you!" I don't even want to know. | | Friday, March 6th, 2009 | | 2:34 am |
I can't think of any decent names, so I ask you! It should not be a name that's taken, and it should not mention Orion: aside from the trademark issue, my game's precursor world is Earth. Poll #1360600 Because "VornMoO" isn't going to cut it!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhat should I call my Master of Orion clone? | | Monday, February 9th, 2009 | | 9:00 pm |
| | Friday, January 30th, 2009 | | 1:24 am |
| | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | | 9:33 am |
| | Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | | 6:12 pm |
Why aren't there more games with a playable denouement? So many end at the final boss. | | Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | | 3:45 pm |
We named it "Uznanskwii". Friend codes &c when we actually get it some internet access. | | Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | | 9:10 pm |
Why are there fifty thousand reskinnings of Monopoly out there, anyway? Monopoly isn't even that good a game. | | Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | | 11:45 pm |
Top 5 Boss Fights
Here's mine. What are yours? 1. Ballos, from Cave Story 2. Ganon, from Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker 3. Quadraxis, from Metroid Prime: Echoes 4. Meta Knight, from Kirby's Adventure 5. Photophage, from Blaster Master (the level 3 boss; I had to look up the name) | | Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | | 6:12 pm |
Programming language question
Why do some languages - perl, javascript, and lua, for instance - have declared variables default to global? I've heard plenty of good arguments for defaulting to local - less coupling is good, not accidentally stomping your namespace is good, etc. - but I haven't heard any arguments at all, good or otherwise, for defaulting to global. | | Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | | 8:30 pm |
it's like an apocalypse in my mouth, and everyone's invited!
I made these tonight. 1 pound monterey jack cheese 1 pound hot sausage 1/2 medium yellow onion 1/2 cup salsa 15-20 jalepeño peppers crumble the sausage into a pan, brown it, put it into a food processor, but don't run it yet. chop the onion, cook it in the oil from the sausage, put that into the food processor. put the salsa into the food processor too. Run the food processor, dump the results into a big bowl. Grate the cheese, stir it into the bowl in stages. halve the peppers and remove the seeds. Stuff the peppers heapingly with the stuff from the bowl. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. They're absurdly spicy. Next time I think I'll try poblanos, and if I happen to have eggs, coat them in tempura batter. | | Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | | 8:59 pm |
| | Thursday, November 6th, 2008 | | 6:13 pm |
FIGHT
Kirby vs. Megaman. Who would win? | | Saturday, June 7th, 2008 | | 8:05 am |
Mabel Josephine Way Coughlin, 1923-2008
My grandmother died last night at around 2:30, at home, in her sleep, of a chronic lung infection.  This is her and her husband Bill, in a picture from sometime in the 90s. He died in 1997, shortly after their 50th anniversary. I'm told that, when I was born, the first thing she said to me was "I would lie down on the railroad tracks for you". I suspect I wasn't the only one she would do that for. Vorn | | Friday, May 9th, 2008 | | 1:40 pm |
This is the second night in a row I've had a Potterverse dream. It answers one question I had: there is an Unseen University. And yes, it is in fact Unseen. Vorn | | Friday, December 28th, 2007 | | 4:06 pm |
God Created The Integers
...all the rest is the work of man. Leopold KroneckerSo, I got a belated christmas present today, a book by Stephen Hawking giving an overview of the history of mathematics, named God Created The Integers. The first subject discussed is the Pythagorean Theorem, starting with Euclid's proof of it. He then goes on to talk about how you can get patterns out of it - for any odd number a, you can get a b that is part of a pythagorean triple with b = ( a2 - 1)/2. You can then do a similar thing with other possible a to get other numbers. And it's about here that I noticed something amazing and beautiful. ( Oh No, Algebra )It's a good sign when a book bowls me over like that on page 15. Vorn |
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