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Okay, finished up my Algorithms project so I get a treat. A little uneasy because I didn't really know how to generate a power set so I did use GeeksForGeeks to help me with that aspect, but I'm not foreseeing many issues w getting help there since a) not the point of the assignment and b) we're explicitly told that we can use stack overflow

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purely operating on carbs coffee and force of will these days

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purely operating on carbs coffee and force of will these days

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purely operating on carbs coffee and force of will these days

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purely operating on carbs coffee and force of will these days

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Alright, feel a bit better because the professor talked about an upcoming quiz where we'll be talking about asymptotic notation and recurrence. Class was interesting and we talked about recurrence trees. I will work on textbook problems later on to hammer home the concept.

Returning to this. I feel relaxed and ready to buckle down today. A little grouchy because I ended up paying 8.50 instead of 4.50 at the dining hall.for breakfast, but that won't kill me. Need to print my notes for algorithms and revise notes further, the professor hasn't said anything regarding midterms and that makes me uneasy. Need to also finish up my brute force project, which should be easy.

[weirdstrass]

Returning to this. I feel relaxed and ready to buckle down today. A little grouchy because I ended up paying 8.50 instead of 4.50 at the dining hall.for breakfast, but that won't kill me. Need to print my notes for algorithms and revise notes further, the professor hasn't said anything regarding midterms and that makes me uneasy. Need to also finish up my brute force project, which should be easy.

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Making good progress on the project, even if I need to rewrite certain things later on. I think I will finish it tomorrow at work and then start on my algorithms assignment.

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i feel like breading & frying a scallop is a waste of a scallop. no scallop was ever made better by being hidden away in a bunch of breading. sear that beast in a skillet like god intended

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finally implemented non-maximum suppression and made it look really pretty too

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Feeling very good today, I woke up late which got me anxious, but said "fuck it" and showered. Smart call, I smell like Pumpkin Spice now. I'm on campus a half hour before first class of the day, which isn't enough time to study but whatcha gonna do? Got 10/10 on Machine Vision quiz, need to write an email to Programming Languages TA saying I can't make it to office hours since I misread his times (I need to make a calendar with all office hours on it). Need to work further on Machine Vision project, need to finish on Tuesday at latest if I hope to hit the club with @bagalois but I'm making good progress. It helps I'd accidentally worked on the project before when I was doing Google Colab class notes. Also need to finish algorithms class project.

Other life tasks:

- call doctor, see wtf is up w my prescription

- laundry

- bake bread

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why do the topologists call the open set around x a neighborhood?

call it for what it is.

balls.

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The FBI: what’s up with this Erdös guy, there is no way anyone could be that into math

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"Average person discovers infinitely many infinities per year" factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person discovers 0 infinities per year. Cantor Georg, who introduced the diagonal argument and discovered infinitely many infinities in 1891 alone, is an outlier and cannot be counted.

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Outset of the journey: there are only two genders

The struggle amidst the journey: there are a large number of genders

Return from the land of the dead, armed with newfound wisdom: there are exclusively three genders, none of which are "man" or "woman."

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Worked today, but felt good about my class participation in Algorithms today-- for once, I sort of blanked during Machine Vision, but I'm working diligently on the project. The project for programming languages was easy as hell, I still need to verify it with Valgrind but it's AST, so the functions to fix were simply based on knowing how to do BST operations.

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Will write more after class, but really glad for the algorithms studying I did yesterday, I feel much more engaged during class. Lots of proving by contradiction, which is my favorite because I don't currently have the mindset for other types of proofs.