Woo, I'm participating in this year's Google Code Jam because I have
nothing better to do and I thought it might be fun. Also, Jamie Wong totally reminded me by
posting to the Software 2014 group's wall. I did the qualifying round
and apparently did not suck out, since I got the 33 points necessary
by doing 1 challenge. :P

Either way, I might mention something on here if anything
substantially interesting comes up. So far the only problem I did
translated into "Can you do a binary counter and modulus? yes? Okay",
so it doesn't really lend itself to anything fascinating. But
hopefully it does later! :D

Either way, for anyone else who's participating and wants to compare
e-peens because my current rank is terrible, I'm Sector.Corrupt in it.
Feel free to check it out and all that Jazz.

Okay, I was just reminded why exactly I will never be cut out for graduate level mathematics.

I was just reading a blog post I got to from some blog that was linked on Hacker News, and mentioned... Math Overflow. Built on the same engine that Stack Overflow is, it sounded like an interesting thing to check out. Either way, I managed to break my brain and give myself a headache just trying to read the site. Higher level mathematics are many things. Beautiful. Primal. Damn Impressive. But above all, they are insanely difficult to comprehend the likes of.

So, anyone who is out there doing crazy theoretical math degrees, and especially those who decide to pursue it to graduate school, for all of those profs that I complained about for not teaching very well... I respect you. Honestly, that stuff looks hard. Maybe some day I'll understand some of it, but for now I'm content to just get by with the math I need to understand.

 

For anyone who is interested in seeing this:

Math Overflow