Archives for February 2008:

Feb 26, 2008 12:23 am | no comments

Context-free

[via Context Free Art Gallery and Community of Variation]
For a computer science assignment last week I wrote a program with a friend in Scheme that generates sentences using context-free grammar. By specifying a few basic rules for parts of speech and including a simple word list, you can get some remarkably coherent results — coherent, [...]

Feb 09, 2008 3:01 am | no comments

Made for me

[via flight404]
I love shopping week at the beginning of every semester, because it is a time of beautiful leisure and carefree distraction.
Okay, so I skip class for a couple days. But consider this–other, much more ambitious students will go to 20 classes that they don’t end up taking. And guess what? I also end up [...]

Feb 06, 2008 1:54 am | 1 comment

Yoshimi succumbs to the second law of thermodynamics

[via kk+ on flickr]
So it was, the week after finals ended, before the intersession fun kicked in and I was just sitting in my room, ready to decrease entropy with the input of some enthalpy.
I vacuumed, re-attached all my posters to the walls, put all the books and errant pieces of silverware back in their [...]

1:34 am | no comments

Updates for the new semester

The “I’ll blog this” moment has been coming up quite a bit lately; if only it were remotely matched in frequency by the “I’ll sit down and write” moments. Too bad those are usually displaced by “I’ll sleep and do my homework in the morning” moments, followed by “shit I woke up later than I [...]