Calculus is filled with complexities, many of which are just plain absurd to deal with in the form of a blog, and while they may not ONLY be able to be taught in the classroom, having 20 or 120 other heads all equally confused as you are does help. Contour Maps are one of the sections that are important, but not at all difficult, so lets get to work.
You are a person, in three dimensions, so we perceive length, width and depth in a way that is pragmatic and useful, but for the sake of demonstrations you are a two dimensional person, and you are going to be looking along your surface as a three dimensional person drops through. You want to tell your friend about this, and so you have set up a series of cameras and are able to get the outline of a shape at an arbitrary time interval. Someone drops a cube through. (Oh, by the way, things are also primitive and black and white.)
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School Contour Maps, Mathematics, Mosh
Sometimes I can get pretty hard on myself. This usually occurs when my listing of things I’ve accomplished during that day ceases to be a priority and I just do. I don’t want to necessarily toot the horn of amazing things to never ignore, but being able to look over your shoulder and see a long list of items on your whiteboard that have bright red slashes through them is bloody amazing and keeps my smile nice and wide.
The last week is no exception, since it was finals i had a lot of free time (no, I never study for my finals ever) so i spent the time cleaning up my forum, working on Project: White and doing some other maintenance for the site, such as cleaning up my SQL Backup script.
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Gneu Website Forum, PHPBB3, Progress Report, Spam, Theme
The blur of ideas is amazing to me. I close my eyes and am lost in the blur and haze that has become what I consider my mind. I have been told that I think at a mile a minute, but that has never stopped me from trying to make a pit stop and clarify.
Recent events have forced me to reevaluate my course in life. Do I continue pushing myself as hard as I have been, trying to, eventually, become the idiosyncratic developer of software that I have always, vainly, thought I was. I think that it has been an interesting journey, and considering that one of the more prominent, and I must say influential in my life thus far, hackers that I have had the option of experiencing took to painting as well as I do to artistry, it may be inevitable.
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Inspiration Development, labels, Programming, Sleep
I just got home from my second IA-32 Assembly exam and it feels like a part of me is about to die. Like a breakup with a woman who I was recently engaged to that i just found out was cheating on me with my grand father and now…
now…
there is nothing more than a hole in my chest.
We have one lab and a final ahead of us and that’s it. I feel like crying, I miss her so much.
Maybe now i can get back into writing for you guys and enjoying the other minor things in my life. Still, it’s very sad.
School Assembly, Love, Programming
I have been quite infrequent about my posts, but its been great to have that extra time that I spent typing away into my own little piece of the internet back. I have strayed a bit from my listed projects, but I have enjoyed it quite a bit.
I have picked up the Guitar (focusing on classical guitar v jazz or anything else extravagant) and although it has been a ton of fun, it has also lead to me being very frustrated. For those who don’t know classical guitar is focused on playing acoustic and free hands, that is with the fingers versus with a pick. Unfortunately i didn’t know this and took the first 7 weeks of the class with my trusted and well played electric Dean Playmate. Well, my fingers have been quite angry with me over the weeks, but i have definitely learned a lot.
Today i went through to the starving musician looking for a set of headphones that i could use that don’t require an amp, but the only setup they had ran ~ $190. they had a huge sale going on for acoustic guitars so instead of $200 bucks on a set of headphones and a preamp I opted to switch gears, so i have a second guitar now.
Acoustic Fender, Steel Strings, and a beautiful long necked beast. I hope that i am able to pull together some of my classes on video, and maybe ill try to do that this weekend.
I am also continuing work on a script, for my insanely goofy and quirky dark comedy Facial Fatality. The script has been evolving over the last four weeks and it will continue to evolve as my abilities improve. I am enjoying my classes this quarter and I’m sure will be able to channel some of that into this amazing blog, one way or another.
Keep your eyes open.
School Creative Writing, Guitar, Music, Screenwriting
I have been very lax about sharing my experiences with the advanced assembly course, and ill tell you why – I am actually having a tough time and its bothering me. Its not tough to accomplish the projects…
- Write an app that calculates the GCD for two integers
- Begin work on my own Strings and Output libraries
- Continue work on libraries, work with FileIO
- Floating point arithmetic & stack manipulation
Overall it has been a lot of fun, learning about the memory interaction and trying to find better ways to work with arrays and heap allocation etc. It is definitely not as simple as some would have it be, but… fun is definitely an appropriate label:
This class is focused on getting beyond the Kip Irvine library and learning about the Windows API, Floating point arithmetic, and memory management. The most recent two labs have been incredibly telling, particularly about the Windows API, and for the record – I don’t like it.
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Application Development Assembly, Code Example, Efficiency
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