I’m going to the library

I’m going to the library to do my algebra homework. I’m a good student.

Programming is like

Programming is like Buddhism. No one can tell you how to do it. You must do it for yourself. You are the only one who can get in touch with your own reality.

Programming is like the Matrix. There is a difference between knowing the path and walking it. I can only show you the door. You have to go through it.

Programming is like mathematics. There is a crucial relationship between syntax and semantics that fills the soul with ecstasy.

Programming is like the brain. The line is blurred between what is static and what is dynamic.

Programming is like the mind. It is everything and it is nothing. It is you and me, and everything in between.

Programming is like music. The answers are out there, it just requires the right kind of person to capture it and tell it to the world.

The answer to life, the universe, and everything is out there, it just takes some time for the global consciousness to understand everything there is to understand. Communication is critical.

Better start rethinking your symbols, math

Currently bothering me: LaGrange’s Theorem. The theorem states that if G is a finite group and H is a subgroup of G, then the order of H divides the order of G. That’s cool. Except the symbol for “the order of a group G” is “|G|”, and the symbol for “divides” is “|”, so the theorem states “|H|||G|”.

Someone better get on this and rewrite some textbooks with a different symbol for “divides”. I propose @ or $.

I spent my revision

I spent my “revision” (review) class thinking about the area between a square and the circle which circumscribes it, and the formula for determining that area for a circle of arbitrary radius.