Of course I have yet to even start revising this thing

...main section DONE! By which I mean the first draft of course, as you can see from the title. Still have to write 5 more pages, though.

Also, having finally gotten back to USACO training, I think I *finally* understand DP, as I have finally reduced Score Inflation from exponential time to polynomial without using up ridiculous space and with it still actually working, although it's still too slow, being O(nm²). It's progress, nonetheless.

Oh, did I mention that my bridge is down to $146,021.26? This puts me in... as of now, 158th.

Yay for progress.

-Sniffnoy

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Well that was over nice and quick

(18:49:29) Sniffnoy: oh I found out more about how the whole fish thing happened from Vlad
(18:49:32) FallMists <AUTO-REPLY> : hw and stuff like that
(18:49:45) FallMists: yeah i found out the story from dewitt
(18:49:55) FallMists: but dewitt says he's allowed to put them back up
(18:50:02) FallMists: short summary is that niedosik flipped
(18:50:03) FallMists: they had meeting
(18:50:08) FallMists: him and admins and the board
(18:50:14) FallMists: and they went through the curriculum
(18:50:21) FallMists: and concluded that coming to the academy is a choice
(18:50:43) FallMists: if the kids didn't like the curriculum (which definitely teaches evolution), then they shouldn't have come
(18:50:52) FallMists: and as long as he epxlains how it's related to evolution, it's fine
(18:51:10) Sniffnoy: oh, OK
(18:54:10) FallMists: the reason he was extra pissed about this was b/c supposedly the kids (not just one... sounded like maybe a few) didn't confront him
(18:54:15) FallMists: they wrote a letter to the admins FIRST
(18:54:18) FallMists: never said a word to him
(18:54:19) Sniffnoy: oh
(18:54:30) FallMists: so the first he heard about it was when the admins walked into his room, took a look at the walls, walked out
(18:54:37) FallMists: came back alittle later and said they had to come down
(18:55:14) Sniffnoy: and then after finding out what was going on, he flipped, took down absolutely everything, and threatened to quit?
(18:55:37) Sniffnoy: hehe I'd like to see him literally flip :D
(18:55:51) FallMists: well
(18:55:55) FallMists: he took down everything
(18:55:56) FallMists: flipped
(18:56:14) FallMists: apparently he was mostly pised that they didn't talk to him first and went to the admins instead
(18:56:23) FallMists: then they had the meeting
(18:56:51) FallMists: and he threatened to quit over the ridiculousness of it all (but they won't let him quit because he's the coordinator for IB!) and he pointed out how it's in the freaking bio curriculum
(18:56:56) FallMists: so then they looked it up
(18:57:12) FallMists: and decidied that yeah, if those kids don't like evolution, tough shit, because they shoudln't have come to the academy
(18:59:40) Sniffnoy: hah yeah I heard about the him not being allowed to quit
(18:59:52) FallMists: well he knows it
(18:59:59) FallMists: so i think he uses his job security as a weapon
(19:00:04) FallMists: "if you don't do this, i'll quit"

Cryptic comment of the day: Gah... they're inflating the wrong thing...

-Sniffnoy

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