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@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@jschauma if they DID take a compilers course and the year was 1979 to 1982, they took it from ME!
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@jef i hate those damn locks
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@jm3 no, CRISP vs. standing in a separate line for each course at Waterman Gym. (yes, I am that old!)
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gyFree lunch Friday with the faculty and the topic du jour was not AI, it was 1) how to proctor exams, now that we are allowed to proctor exams, and 2) an hour-long presentation on MENTORING, including a dramatic presentation by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Players. (They are […]
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gynot good at all. more like 722 deaths in the family.
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@jschauma what do they do with all that money?
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gyi ran into a theory prof, asked if anything she was working on was on the list. “no, they’re not hard enough.”
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gyoh. i see. https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@rsalz AFAICT CS theory died
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gyespecially the theory faculty, all ashen
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gyfree lunch wednesday and i find my cs colleagues are all FREAKING OUT 🤔
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gyyou say that 256-byte SHA3 digest [or 256 coin flips or whatever] has very high entropy because it is extremely hard to predict, but doesn’t this just beg the question? you could as easily have said that 256 coin flips are very hard to predict because they have high entropy?
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@SteveBellovin i was unusually fatigued for a day. lemme know how it goes for you.
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gyeveryone needs a little more music in their life!
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gyheaded to the post office to mail some tapes (and one crappy tape player) to some friends in ann arbor and LA (and a stranger in ferndale)
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@0xabad1dea seen in ann arbor
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy@jef i had a vernor’s float yesterday (we call it a boston cooler hereabouts)
@peterhoneyman.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gycorktown
