Category: Blarghing

My general rants and speeches

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Cough

Day 1: slight cough, mild headaches. Slept well.

Day 2: slight cough, no headaches. Slept well.

Day 3: slight cough. Coughed a lot while trying to sleep.

Day 4: slight cough. STAYED UP TILL 5AM BECAUSE WHEN I TRIED TO LAY DOWN, I ENDED UP COUGHING.

Day 5: slight cough. slept well.

Day 6: slight cough. Sleep condition TBD.

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Notes: SSD edition

Some notes from the past week:

  1. It is incredibly easy to be an impostor in a more academic party. First of all, most of the people will be already intoxicated to the point where bullshit science can’t be discerned from actual science. This is good as I can just say random facts I remember from Popular Science.Another acceptable thing to do is to just ask questions upon questions. “What’s your research? … Oh that’s so cool! Tell me more about it! … So does this connect to insert scientific news here? Wow.” That’ll burn around 5 minutes minimum.The main problem comes when you run out of questions in the initial barrage. It also fails when the person is laconic or can’t speak English.

  2. Installing a SSD is extremely easy, but installing operating systems are hard. Right now, I have around 8 entries on my GRUB menu before I migrate everything over to my new distro.I followed the mount guide provided here, which seems intuitive enough on where to put mount points. I’ve also learned that 
    mount

    and

    df -h

    are my friends. There’s also that good GParted software.

  3. The Lloyd Trefethren numerical linear algebra book is quite good for a quick overview of the subject. It doesn’t get bogged down with the analysis, and generally refers to other books (mainly the Van Loan) throughout.
  4. Holy shit URF mode.
  5. I need to be more brave in a certain subject….
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A Bad Reed

I’ve played through the Weber Clarinet Concerto several times in the past, but the most frustrating play-through must have happened today. The reed was pretty bad, but I decided to use it nevertheless, hoping it’ll get magically better as the practice session wore on. It never did.

It’s incredibly frustrating as I grow up to not be classified as “great” in things that I used to be great at years ago. All-state, Festival of Winds, FSU band camps, All-districts; I dominated most of these competitions. I was pretty damn good as a clarinet player for my age. The key phrase of the previous egotistical sentence was “for my age.”

Now, I’m decent in Cornell. In math, I also see myself struggling to see solutions in hard problems that I would’ve blown past in high school. This is good though. I’ve learned more about myself than before, and egos needed to be bursted from time to time.

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Titledrop

Little solace comes

to those who grieve

when thoughts keep drifting

as walls keep shifting

and this great blue world of ours

seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind.

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Sorry

A bit busy recently.

Had a concert Saturday, project and HW due Sunday, prelim and homework on Monday, and a prelim tomorrow.

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Wine IE

  • Installs Wine to play Hearthstone.
  • Made a gif for a project.
  • Double clicked gif to see how it turned out.
  • gif opened in IE under Wine.
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Life’s Update

I’ve been working on a few things:

  1. Position-based fluids for my CS5643 class, which is a pain to debug. Normally, I have tons of intuition on what numbers are suppose to be but my intuition is nil here. I’m unsure as we’re guessing the correct parameters or even the right formulas and procedure.It’s a great class, just the project are incredibly tedious. For example, my particles right now just seem to float of into the x direction and stay there. Why would it do that?

    Hopefully, what ends up happening is something like the following, except less pretty.

  2. I finally installed Hearthstone for my Elementary OS Linux box. It was incredibly easy following this tutorial.
  3. In terms of research, I’ve been reading up on different ways to generate the Krylov basis for GMRES as described in this paper. I’ll probably write up and refined the old  “idiot’s guide” again for this paper information (and fix the bad latex in there).
  4. This soundtrack (not allowed to embed).
  5. My card handeling has suffered :(.
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Love’s Philosophy

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?