The most interesting dream I remember this week was one involving a function that contained a singularity. I know this because I was staring at the denominator of the function for a while, and it contained a (z - z0) term, although with an actual number for z0. Unfortunately, I don't remember any of the context for this observation, so why I was staring at a function with singularity z0 will remain forever a mystery.
In other completely geeky news:
I was doing the usual Wikipedia crawl, where one article leads to another and another and another and another and another and another and... well, anyway.
I started on ADAM, then progressed through evolutionary computing, to, finally, Core War. Yes, Core War. It's a game for assembly language programmers (all you need to know about assembly code is that, while computers run it fast, it's horridly, horridly, difficult for humans to actually read -- I enjoy coding, but assembly language still eludes me). Essentially, it's a two-player game where each programmer makes a "warrior" program whose entire goal is to halt the processes of the other program.
I suppose this game appeals to me because it's similar to ordinary video games, except without the middle conversion from code to monsters or dragons or rpg worlds. It's actual "programs" "attacking" each other.
Reality check. A bit of a segue: Conway's Game of Life. A complete segue: http://www.thatsmyface.com/
Reality check. A bit of a segue: Conway's Game of Life. A complete segue: http://www.thatsmyface.com/
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Assembly code. Is that where you have to make sure you cross your T's, dot yout I's and make sure you cover for the possibility that the green frog may well jump into the orange box when the fig trees are not yet in season?
ReplyDeleteI am hopelessly in the dark about hard code, but I do remember having a tough time while trying to make a game mod/custom level and having to spend weeks tweaking variables within the somewhat archaic game engine...
And that was before I even got to the math. :(