Bits and more bits

My first real computer crash under Linux! This deserves a... celebration? A mention in my LJ, anyway. :P

(wrt HMMT)
(22:59:46) JP math nut: you're lucky... i was hearing you'd only get to send 0

Actually, it turns out, we're sending 22. But still only 1 team.

Mickey's back from Israel!

(20:44:47) Sniffnoy: where does usaco training get its seemingly random problem numbers?
(20:44:59) fantasychrono: that is a good question
(20:45:04) fantasychrono: probably the order in which they put them up
(20:45:12) fantasychrono: they changed stuff every once in a while

Oh, do you remember "p?" and "?p"? No? Good. They returned today, in the guise of "p!" and "!p". Whoops. Shouldn't have said that.

I really need to figure out this whole "dynamic programming" thing...

-Sniffnoy

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"pretty much, my thesis can be reduced to the letter tau"
-TimC

Amazing!

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What kind of Frog are you?

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

So... it's Sunday... the last day before school... the last day to finish up that work that's due when we get back...

Anyway on to last night. Or back to last night. Or something. Haha.

Yah, so, of course, last night was really just like any other non-school night... working on USACO training... getting a weird bug where on case 9 the program outputs that the shortest sequence of moves is "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1", where, not only is this not right, it's clearly ridiculous as any move repeated 4 times cancels itself out... I should get back to that...

But that's not the amazing thing, obviously. The amazing thing is that...

Well, looking at the log, Steph invited me to play Bridge on Yahoo at... 22:39. I played until about 5 till 1, and I *actually got to see the end of a rubber*. Unfortunately I can't really say I played a full rubber of Bridge as I was actually replacing someone after the first 3 hands of so, but I very nearly did.

I'd say "this is why we never kept score last year" - and it was - except of course that would be an exaggeration as all those seniors who played Bridge every day were much better than us - it was ridiculously rare that any of us actually made our bids... IIRC, the other team *never* did. :P

Yah, we're awful. But still I've never played long enough for that before!

Hehe.

-Sniffnoy, who was hoping to get Emperor Norton after someone else reported that they had gotten him

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"Computer games don't affect kids negatively; I mean if Pac-Man affected
us as kids, we'd all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic
pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-Kristian Wilson