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Spring 2010 Classes

In Spring of 2010 I am taking two classes: MSCS 6020: Simulation (syllabus) and MSCS 6060: Parallel & Distributed Systems (syllabus).

The Experience of the Delight of Learning

The experience of the delight of learning is such a wonderful thing.
Have you felt it lately? How?

Was it a happy-accident that glass drinking glasses have been in use for hundreds of years and they don’t leach any dangerous chemicals into their contents and thus into our bodies?
Did that lull us into false sense of security where we assume that drinking container vendors would only provide us with things that would not poison us?

What is your PS1?

Mine is:

PS1='\u@\h:$pwd>'

Adding Unicode Fonts to Windows

Today I set up pretty-mode.el and found that the laptop had all of the Unicode fonts but the desktop did not. I ended up installing Arial Unicode MS as suggested by unicode.org, and that installed all of the missing fonts.

If you have Microsoft Office 2000 and newer versions, you can get the Arial Unicode MS font, which is the most complete. To get it, insert the Office CD, and do a custom install. Choose Add or Remove Features. Click the (+) next to Office Tools, then International Support, then the Universal Font icon, and choose the installation option you want.

Fall 2009 Classes

In Fall of 2009 I took one class:
MSCS 6010: Probability which used Statistical Inference, Second edition by Casella & Berger.
Addendum: 01/23/10
Here is the syllabus for the course.

OCaml Recommended Reading

Geoff recommended the following books for getting started with OCaml via this comment:

Introduction to Objective Caml by Jason Hickey
Developing Applications With Objective Caml by Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal Manoury and Bruno Pagano
OCaml for Scientists by Dr. Jon D. Harrop

Final Probability Update

This past December, on the fifteenth, I completed the Probability class that I was attending.
We covered Probability from the theoretical (Calculus) and analytical (MATLAB) side of things. In my first foray into theory behind Statistics, I found the relationships between the distributions to be really neat to see, and along with the Calculus, a lot to chew on all at once ;).
Overall it was a lot of fun; I can’t wait to get started with Simulation on the eighteenth.

Common Food Measurement Related Conversions

Here are some common food measurement related conversions:

1 US cup = 8 US fluid ounces
1 US cup = 236.588237 ml
1 US fluid ounce = 29.5735296 ml

(via google)

A FP Water Bottle

Here is the image that I would probably use if I were to get a custom 1L water bottle from CafePress:

While it is the PLT Scheme logo, lambda is certainly not PLT Scheme specific ;).

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