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the identity function i: X→X is defined by i(x) = x for all x in X [personal happenstances]

New Orleans

Apparently I’m only going to update this blog while I’m on vacation. So anyway, I’ve been in New Orleans since Tuesday. Great place. I’m so fat now (not really (but really)) We’ve been using the streetcar system a lot. Mostly the St. Charles line, since our hotel is on St. Charles Avenue. When it runs […]

My Erdős number is now 6

[wiki] C. Butterfield, R. Mason, and S. Thede. “Sentence Selection for Extractive Summaries in PARE,” Proceedings of the Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics, Nov. 2007, pp. 53-62. A. M. Surprenant, S. L. Hura, M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, G. Long, S. M. Thede, A. Rout, T.-H. Hsueh, S. A. […]

Oh hey, it’s been two months

life recap

Software Engineering project, Part II

Important implementation information! “Write a program that find a near optimal solution to the Rubic’s cube.” Dodgy grammar and spelling aside, this makes my plan of attack much narrower in scope. Now I don’t have to figure out whether he wanted a program, or a printed mathematical algorithm, or a machine that physically solves a […]

Software Engineering project, Part I

“Find a near-optimal solution to the Rubik’s Cube.” More as I figure out exactly what that means and how to do it.

“Boredom, lack of productivity, and unambiguous newspaper headlines”

“Reasons for the dearth of recent updates.” I’m back to college next week, so maybe things’ll pick up then.

An excerpt from chapter 3 of my memoirs

a story about an ill-fated game of strip poker played on school grounds during elementary school

So, I’m currently in Fernley, NV

I don’t feel like reporting anything else substantial right now, so here’s a picture of a ten pound chocolate bar:

Natural Beauty

Here are some photos of miscellaneous pretty things I’ve encountered on the trip.

Dazzling Solvangian Wordplay

While going through the pictures I’ve taken so far, I noticed quite a few involved signs or messages that amused me for some reason or another. Since I’m currently one picture short of the mini-album I really wanted to post today, here are a few of those pictures, captioned snarkily.