Pete's Log: obfusc8ion, pirates, crypto stuff, arla, forth and wings
Entry #481, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
woohoo! version 2 of yesterday's code is now functional. it features improved pseudo-randomness (thank you discrete math book) and is now 8 lines long instead of 9. I figured most of it out during comp arch but managed to still pay attention. I must say, I think Dr. Kogge uses transparencies better than most. His handwriting is slightly hard to decipher, but that's forgivable, considering how cool it was to derive a superscalar simple 12 architecture in class today. I showed my obfuscated code to a couple juniors and told them my plans for tomorrow. They both decided they'd show up for 232 after seeing the code and what it does. Amusing, that. The new version, along with other obfuscated goodness, is at http://prijks.esgeroth.org/stuff/o/obfusc8/.
Quote from an email from Rebecca Weber that amused me: "... having a conversation with my sister about turning an old Buick into a pirate ship, and boarding other cars at red lights. Arrrrr." She also informed me that the math department may have a cool grad student seminar next week about crypto stuff...
wow. today a cse 232 student came to my office hours for the first time ever. she had some issues with her hw4 grade, but of course the answer, as usual, was "sorry, but the style document says how to do this, and you did it wrong."
helped Dr. Freeh install arla on his machine. arla is goodness. i like arla. talked with him a bit more about forth.
it's tuesday again, which means bw3's! rumor has it my gymnastics coach may even show up. heh heh.