Category: Math/Programming

Stuff about math and programming. Nerdy shit.

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Ideas

The desire to build is strong with me, but I never got the training (same with drawing too). I guess that’s why the Arduino is sitting there, collecting dust. I wish there’s just labs where we build stuff here at Cornell.

But anyways… ideas:

  1. App where it shows the approximate location of buses as markers on Google maps using time data, and not GPS (too expensive). I think this should be fairly doable in the grand scheme of things.
  2. Clock where the hour is given by the shape of the polygon displayed. I see glimpses of coolness here, but can’t put my hands on it.

 

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Magic, Math, and Cooking

For the past few days, I’ve been just existing. I’m not wasting the day in anyways though. The day was spent shopping at Wegman’s Wednesday, while yesterday was spent cleaning the entire house.

Even without classes, I still feel that I’m not accomplishing much. I want to be great at math, start being decent at magic, and great at clarinet; also P90Xing on top of all that. That’s over 4 hours right there.

Am I over-exerting myself in expecting mastery in such diverse hobbies? Probably.

Will I keep on trying? Of course.

Lets just hope I don’t die this semester.

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Dreams

Had two dreams recently that was pretty weird…

  1. I had to hide in a hut when a comet shower was going on… which turned out to be a bunch of meteors striking the Earth. I think I was with a few REU folks… and then I had to dodge a rolling ball of fire.Influences: RTW II videos and the actual comet shower.
  2. I bitched about someone in front of a large group. I don’t bitch to people in large groups….

 

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Take It Back to Square One

After a long program like my recent REU where I hung out with a group of awesome people for such a long time that I forget the outside world, I reminisce about past groups. I think back to my MAO conventions where I flirted with love, jump back in time to the All-District concert with Dr. Green cheering us on during Maslanka… but I always feel sad afterwards that my memory of them is incomplete.

I wish I kept a consistent journal throughout my years to see how I developed. Sometimes when I clean my room in Tallahassee, I would find a little unicorn book where I wrote notes in third and fourth grade. Runescape notes dominated the pages (and a crush for a Megan Morris? … who is this girl?).

Hopefully I can start writing about my feelings/notes on daily life on here more. After all, I am spending a good amount to have this website and domain under my name.

Well. Back to square one.

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Project Euler #1

Add all the natural numbers below one thousand that are multiples of 3 or 5.

Besides the obvious solution by looping from 1 to 1000 and considering each number, this problem can be solved with some simple PIE counting.

Sum up all multiple of 3’s and 5’s with an arithmetic sequence, then subtract the multiple of 15’s due to overcounting.

Hopefully these type of posts will be much more interesting (for me too) as the questions get tougher.