Well, I actually didn’t meet him — I narrowly missed him. I went to Santa Cruz on Saturday with Joanna to hang with Mommypuff and Gogo. We were walking down one of the main streets there, amid signs that promoted …More
Archive for October, 2005
WPintos | CPintos
“Then I’m like, where is my argument? I know I should be doing something else, but let me just dereference this garbage instead… Sorry. I was thinking like echo.” – Henry
Beauty fills his head with wonder, boy
…And it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way… 8. FORMAL PROOF II——————let phi = p(x)1. phi => Ax.phi UG2. (phi => Ax.phi) => Ax.(phi => …More
Making the Impossible Very Difficult
My week: 1. Finished 145 (XPath/XQuery)2. Finished 147 (the usual)3. Got pwned at Lucky Dhaba (Wampler is back!) While the irony is not entirely lost on me, I was dismayed by what Adit believes is “good Indian food”. At least …More
This is the Kaliyuga
Ruminations on the the Kaliyuga, which seem appropriate given the next week or so. Due Dates Oct 24CS145 Project(s) October 25CS147 – Meet in Meyer at 8:30? Oct 27CS157 PS #2 Oct 31CS145 – Gradiance/Challenge CS147 – A3 User Observation …More
Jerry Cain I Love You!
I love Jerry Cain. He saved me $15,000. The past month has been something of a crisis vis a vis scraping together 45 units of classes to count towards my MS degree without double-counting any of the classes I took …More
Acronis True Image
Is truly excellent backup and recovery software that actually works the way you would want it to. Two weeks ago the hard drive in my 3 year old Inspiron 8200 started to die (threw up some scary looking “umountable boot …More
c4 is explosive!
Regarding my chess puzzle from October 17th. White’s bishop is trapped after b5 on black’s next turn and there isn’t a single thing white can do about it.
I'm afraid of ontological commitment
CS270. It goes on like this: … If, as we have argued, all representations are imperfect approximations to reality, each approximation attending to some things and ignoring others, then in selecting any representation we are in the very same act …More

