In Case Anyone Is Curious I Still Haven’t Organized That First React Project. Ironically, Of Everything

Writing mergesort in Scheme makes me sooo grateful for python. And Javascript. And Java. And Ruby. And C#. Heck, I’m even grateful for C, at least it lets you access specific list indices.

Happy Pride!

Alan Turing, one of the best computer scientists and programmers ever, was gay. The world lost him at a young age because he wasn’t treated with the kindness every human deserves. 

Be nice to your fellow person. Be they a mathematical prodigy or an innominate stranger, everyone deserves to love and be loved. 

Some articles about Turing:

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/alan-turing-a-prodigy-whose-life-was-curtailed-for-being-homosexual-5bd5e686c1c0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/24/alan-turing-was-a-war-hero-prosecuted-for-being-gay-he-finally-got-a-pardon/

You know what I haven’t thought about in while? Ruby. Maybe I need to polish off the old gemstone. 

Hi Tumblr, I’m back. I hope you’ve all been well.

A lot of computer science algorithms are just means to describe activities humans do naturally.

Sorting a list? Humans do it no problem; heck, in a vacuum one might adhere exactly to a quicksort + insertionsort hybrid (a speedy combo on many datasets) without even knowing it.

Bigger example: graph theory. The foundation of modern databases, neural networks, and gps routing came from the contemplation of the people of Königsberg. Euler just harnessed raw thought into a concrete set of rules and instructions that further our innate abilities.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Seven Bridges of Königsberg - Wikipedia

Seven Bridges of Königsberg - Wikipedia

Tragic news like half the ways people talk about magic in fiction could irl be applied to maths

Guess who jumped into his first React project without any planning and now continues to add features thereby creating a monstrosity of spaghetti code. THIS guy!

Psh prolog more like amatuerlog

Scene: I’m sitting in my dorm room the first semester of college.

I finally get my code working and am doing the final cleanup before submitting. I delete some lines that I had commented out because, you know, I was scared to get rid of them at the time in case they became useful later.

I run my code after deleting the aforementioned COMMENTS just to make sure everything still works. As expected, it works! Then it doesn’t. Then it works again! And again! Then it doesn’t. I put the comment back in just in case that’s what was keeping everything together (see: superstition) and it works for 6 straight tests, which thoroughly confuses me.

I ultimately found out that the problem was not, in fact, with the comments that do nothing but actually with an integer I was declaring and incrementing without ever initializing, creating “random” behavior.

It really be like that sometimes

Reblog if you’re a student actively ignoring an assignment

Me, offering my teammate the bug fix story that will certainly drive them to insanity