I have had a madly busy week. I have worked all day in every day of the week to get the assignments due, which makes me recall a funny incident in my statistic class. In the other day, the professor is asking when would think a bath-tub distribution occurs in real life. And then, a student answered, "the time you spend studying throughout a semester. Haha, that was good.
I have just handed in another computer science assignment tonight. Part of the assignment was asking us to describe a modification on an existing code in order to carry out some extra features. The tricky part is, it does not want us to make the modification, instead, it want us to describe it so other people can understand. Quite frankly, I found the work much harder than and more tedious than modifying the code directly. I was joking to myself maybe that's way I am in computer science instead of social science. Then I realize that codes and the language we use for proof in CSC236 are designed to be concise, uniform and unambiguous, unlike real language. When we try to convey ideas through real language, I have to make assumptions about others' knowledge, intelligence and even emotional state. More importantly, there are many ways to convey the same thing in real language; and what is even more serious is that different things can be conveyed by the same sentences. So I am still struggling between the real language and the computer language...
I am starting to solving a challenging math question that I found on the problem wiki website. The problem I am woking on is the free lunch question. It is quite interesting, and I am already making some progress. I will get it update soon.
Now I need to get some sleep, night!
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