I want to go back to writing fan fiction. Since I became defunct on FFn, I haven't been able to dismiss the feeling that I'm not writing nearly as much as I used to. As a result, on the rare occasions when I do write something--usually a deranged clown story--my writing has none of the fluidity of my older works or blog entries from periods when I had been particularly active on this blog, even if I can get away with pretending that my recent works are more sophisticated. (The DC series is really too ephemeral to be considered stories in any proper sense. It's more like brief episodes of inspiration--or, no surprise, really, derangement--during which a bunch of words come together to form something marginally greater than the sum of its parts.) I never have been good at original fiction; and in the absence of ridiculous real-life characters like GK or Arnab Goswami, I find it difficult to write more than a few sentences on any subject, really. So fan fiction it is. I don't think I shall be going back to Slam Dunk, since the category has been wrung dry of quality stuff, and only retarded people can be found there now. And I don't think I could write a meaningful story set in the last whatever Bleach arcs. So I shall have to seek out something new to write about--over the summer, of course. It would be foolish (though, sadly, entirely in character) if I distracted myself with something silly like fan fiction right before finals. I'm no longer in high school, ya know?
I just beat 2548, the Fibonacci version of 2048. I haven't been able to beat the original version yet, for some reason. This achievement has renewed my intellectual vigor, and I now feel equal to taking on anything, including my two finals tomorrow, whose syllabi I shall presently detail, for old times' sake:
CS 421: Basic OCaml stuff, monomorphic and polymorphic type inference and derivation, regular grammars, all manner of lexing (well, some at least), parsing, and bestowing in the grand manner semantics upon pretty much everything one can think of. The ritual shall be completed with a most scrumptious course in lambda calculus.
CS 473: All kinds of search algorithms, shortest path algorithms, everything you can think of pertaining to graphs, including coloring, matching, and spanning trees, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, randomized algorithms, probability and statistics stuff relating thereto, complexity classes, including P, NP and co-NP, NP-Complete and co-NP-Complete, EXP, no doubt, and reductions to NP-Complete programs.
I'd be very worried if I missed something in those rather general lists, since that would mean that there is much work ahead of us yet. I am fain to believe that I'm well prepared enough to take on both these finals, and live to talk about it, but the verdict of history is clear. If only I could travel at relativistic speeds I might be able to do everything I think I ought to do by way of preparation. Sadly I can't.
I just beat 2548, the Fibonacci version of 2048. I haven't been able to beat the original version yet, for some reason. This achievement has renewed my intellectual vigor, and I now feel equal to taking on anything, including my two finals tomorrow, whose syllabi I shall presently detail, for old times' sake:
CS 421: Basic OCaml stuff, monomorphic and polymorphic type inference and derivation, regular grammars, all manner of lexing (well, some at least), parsing, and bestowing in the grand manner semantics upon pretty much everything one can think of. The ritual shall be completed with a most scrumptious course in lambda calculus.
CS 473: All kinds of search algorithms, shortest path algorithms, everything you can think of pertaining to graphs, including coloring, matching, and spanning trees, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, randomized algorithms, probability and statistics stuff relating thereto, complexity classes, including P, NP and co-NP, NP-Complete and co-NP-Complete, EXP, no doubt, and reductions to NP-Complete programs.
I'd be very worried if I missed something in those rather general lists, since that would mean that there is much work ahead of us yet. I am fain to believe that I'm well prepared enough to take on both these finals, and live to talk about it, but the verdict of history is clear. If only I could travel at relativistic speeds I might be able to do everything I think I ought to do by way of preparation. Sadly I can't.
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