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Should I tell my uni professor that his exam is my last and if he doesn't pass me i won't graduate this semester?
yes
no
Like, I DO want to pressure him in not failing me, also I'm not very knowledgeable in the subject atm and my fear is that if I fail I'm going to look like an idiot who didn't study and ruined her chances on her own. But like if there's a chance he'd be more flexible I'd take it.
Comments and takes on this situation are welcome
Algorithm Expressions (Little Words To Know)
Structured English: using the English language to write command statements to describe an algorithm
Pseudocode: using identifiers and keywords to plan a program without following the syntax of a specific programming language
Flowchart: specific linked shapes that visually show what happens in a program
Assignment: a value is given a name - an identifier
Sequence: steps run one after the other
Selection: some steps are performed and others, that don’t meet the defined parameters, are not
Repetition: a sequence of steps run more than once - iteration/looping
Variable: storage location for an identified data value
Nested IF Statement: conditional code within conditional code
Rogue Value: stops a sequence of values
Nested Loop: a loop within a loop
Me, trying to prove something about Reed-Muller codes based on the structure of the basis vectors, but having trouble writing it down mathematically: Oh I’ll just look at some papers about why they went with that structure and see how they wrote it down!
Papers about RM codes: Haha yeah we just fucked around a bit and thought this looked fun :D
Expansion of adjacent possibles by compression
I just looked at a "TBD" in a message and thought "Total Big Deal". I wonder if social-media driven acronyms are going to be a new evolutionary path for the generation of novel phrases. I can picture a Kauffman-esque paper title: "Compression expands adjacent possibles"
Devastating News: Sol Golomb has apparently passed away on Sunday
I was getting concerned that I hadn’t heard back from Sol for a while, particularly after emailing him late last week, and then I ran across this notice through ITSOC & the IEEE:
Solomon W. Golomb (May 30, 1932 – May 1, 2016)
Shannon Award winner and long-time ITSOC member Solomon W. Golomb passed away on May 1, 2016. Solomon W. Golomb was the Andrew Viterbi Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) and was at USC since 1963, rising to the rank of University and Distinguished Professor. He was a member of the National Academies of Engineering and Science, and was awarded the National Medal of Science, the Shannon Award, the Hamming Medal, and numerous other accolades. As USC Dean Yiannis C. Yortsos wrote, “With unparalleled scholarly contributions and distinction to the field of engineering and mathematics, Sol’s impact has been extraordinary, transformative and impossible to measure. His academic and scholarly work on the theory of communications built the pillars upon which our modern technological life rests.”
In addition to his many contributions to coding and information theory, Professor Golomb was one of the great innovators in recreational mathematics, contributing many articles to Scientific American and other publications. More recent Information Theory Society members may be most familiar with his mathematics puzzles that appeared in the Society Newsletter, which will publish a full remembrance later.
A quick search a moment later revealed this sad confirmation along with some great photos from an award Sol received just a week ago:
A sad day 4 @USC @USCViterbi @USCMingHsiehEE with the loss of beloved Sol Golomb. Was only last week we celebrated his Franklin medal.
— Yannis C. Yortsos (@DeanYortsos) May 2, 2016
With Andy Viterbi and Sol Golomb at the celebration of @TheFranklin @USCViterbi @USCMingHsiehEE pic.twitter.com/0iktSa9zf1
— Yannis C. Yortsos (@DeanYortsos) April 22, 2016
Sol Golomb receiving the @TheFranklin medal in Electrical Engineering @USCViterbi @USCMingHsiehEE pic.twitter.com/L3RFUGhsWs
— Yannis C. Yortsos (@DeanYortsos) April 21, 2016
As is common in academia, I’m sure it will take a few days for the news to drip out, but the world has certainly lost one of its greatest thinkers, and many of us have lost a dear friend, colleague, and mentor.
I’ll try touch base with his family and pass along what information *sniff* I can. I’ll post forthcoming obituaries as I see them, and will surely post some additional thoughts and reminiscences of my own in the coming days.
The Mnemonic Major System and Gregg Shorthand Have the Same Underlying Structure!
I’ve been a proponent and user of a variety of mnemonic systems since I was about eleven years old. The two biggest and most useful in my mind are commonly known as the “method of loci” and the “major system.” The major system is also variously known as the phonetic number system, the phonetic mnemonic system, or Hergione’s mnemonic system after French mathematician and astronomer Pierre…
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Coding A Generator
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I just finished my first Kickstarter video last night at 2:30 am, and boy am I glad that’s over. 2 days with no coding. so how do I celebrate? by making a 10 minute video of me coding a new…
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