LOLCode Wednesday, Oct 22 2008

So I found an interesting competition yesterday. Write a program in LOLCode to find square roots. I’ve never heard of this programming language before. It looks like the sort of programming language I would write. It’s kinda fun to play with. Although I do have a headache now. I wrote a small program to find prime numbers. Finding prime numbers is something fun to do with an unknown language. Here it is:

BTW I IZ GOING THRO UR NUMBRZ EATIN 4LL UR COMPOSITES LOL
SO IM LIKE PRIMED WIT U OK?
  PRIMEZ CAN HAS SOME CHEEZBURGER OK OF THOSE U
  GIMME EACH CHECK IN UR NUMBRZ TWINZ AND U OK?
    IZ PRIMEZ LOOK AT CHECK OK KINDA LIKE CHEEZBURGER?
      VISIBLE CHECK
      GIMME EACH T IN UR NUMBRZ CHECK OF THOSE TWINZ AND U AND CHECK OK?
        PRIMEZ SOME T OK CAN HAS EASTERBUNNY BTW I EATZ U LOL

IZ BIGNESS ARGZ OK KINDA LIKE ONE?
  ME CAN HAS ALLFINGERZ BY GRAYSKULL POWER TWO
NOPE?
  ME CAN HAS NUMBR ARGZ LOOK AT 1!!
PRIMED WIT ME!

Now I just need to do the square root code. The first prize is $300, second $200 and third $100. It’s only for Massey students too. So maybe I have a chance of winning something.

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Robolympics Wednesday, Oct 15 2008

Today was the competition day for the robots we built in our first year engineering class. I’m not sure the event deserves to be called robolympics but nevermind. It was fun. We didn’t win

Our robot was too slow and the gearbox fell apart during one of the six events. It was also the event that ours was going to do well in. Line following a spiral in and out. We made it half way. Only one team completed it properly. It’s a pity.

These robots are really really dumb. All the can do is crudely follow a line and back up and turn when they run into an obstacle.

I think our robot was the best looking. It has personality

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Whee, pavlova for me. Monday, Sep 15 2008

This is the only thing I can think of that uses 6 egg whites. Though if I knew of anything else I would probably still cook Pavlova. It doesn’t look as pretty as the last attempt but apparently it tastes better.Two people eating half a Pavlova should equal two sick people, but not today. This Pavlova has 25% less sugar than the last, it makes a difference.

The full moon was tonight. I took pictures. They were blurry. I was sad. I was lazy. I took no more. My camera has more dead pixels.

Oh, our stats lecturer made a humorous remark today. Serves him right for using a dictionary definition of hypothesis. I can’t remember the exact wording of the definition but it was something like “an idea intended to explain certain facts or observations that has not been proved or disproved.”

He then pointed out that evolution was just a hypothesis and so was creationism. Maybe I just misunderstood him because a stats lecturer must know that statistical hypotheses are never proven. There is always a probability the results you got were due to chance and not your hypothesis being correct. By his definition he is correct evolution is just a hypothesis … but he should be comparing a scientific concept with a scientific definition. I’ll get the exact definition when he uploads his lecture notes.

Edit: I now have the definition from the lecture:

‘A hypothesis is an idea which is suggested as a possible explanation  for a particular  situation or a condition, but which has not been proven to be correct.’-from a dictionary

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Mid-semester Tests Wednesday, Sep 10 2008

So informative and interesting content goes out the window on my second post. I’m writing about whatever I want. I don’t need to cater to any non-existent readership. Does it matter what I write?

Anyway, I got the results back for my physics test, 95%! The highest in the class. I’m quite pleased with myself. I’m saddened that the rest of the class didn’t do so well. More than half  scored less than 50%. I cannot understand it. I am beginning to think that many people aren’t studying what they enjoy learning about.

I did my stats test tonight. It’ll be hard to beat 95%. I expect to at least get 2 of the 30 multi-choice questions wrong. Though I can’t imagine getting more than 5 wrong so it should still be over 85%.

Only one more mid semester test left, digital electronics. I feel my lack of study is bad, it’s going to come back and bite me later. Lecturers should make the mid-semester tests more difficult to encourage students to study more.

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