“You mean you can't take less; it's very easy to take more than nothing.”
I quite often find myself needing to store relationships between objects and as such have developed a small library for defining relation tables. What sort of things would you need to store relationships about? The similarity between music tracks. The number of words spoken in an IM conversation between people. The position of a playoff [...]
Combining my desire to learn more about parsing and the need for an ability to check various truth tables I have made a program that will take an expression and output a truth table for it. http://www.atomice.plus.com/TruthTables.zip It was written in Python, so you’ll need to download the runtime. You can either run it from [...]
Currently I am writing a spinner control for a program I am writing, much like a fruit machine. The simplest way to achieve this effect is to have the graphics scroll past, perhaps with a bit of shading to create the illusion of 3D. However, I thought it would be interesting to try and take [...]
As a sign of my sometimes complete boredom, I worked out that I have an average age of 9.5. That is, if you take the mean of all the ages I’ve ever been it comes out as 9.5. You can work it out for yourself with the excruciatingly simple formula of n / 2, where [...]
So I’m back and very tired after a 4½ hour car journey to York each way. Why? For an interview at the university no less. My father and I arose at 5am to begin the long journey, which was about an hour shorter than expected on account of low traffic at such a ridiculous hour. [...]