Archive for January, 2009

Jan 18 2009

Tetris: Now proven to be hard

Published by Chris Rebert at 10:47 PM

Here’s some random interesting research I came upon:
Tetris is Hard
Apparently Tetris has now been mathematically proven to be computationally difficult. NP-complete to be more precise.
I suppose this means I’ve been solving traveling salesman problems all this time without even knowing it! Now if we could just harness this power…

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Jan 18 2009

Frink – The Street

Published by Chris Rebert at 10:36 PM

In the course of an epic fail journey I plan to blog about soon, even though I probably would do better instead to forget the event entirely and suppress all memory of it, I walked by and took special note of an honest-to-goodness street with the same name as every nerd’s favorite minor Simpsons character, [...]

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Jan 18 2009

Biohazard (no, my room isn’t that dirty)

Published by Chris Rebert at 10:20 PM

I thought I’d chronicle this just because of the sheer weirdness factor.
As I took the elevator up and back, to and from the math homework boxes so I could turn in my MATLAB homework, both times two students got on the elevator wearing gloves and moving a large, wheeled trash bin with biohazard warnings on [...]

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Jan 18 2009

Freakin’ TritonLink!

Published by Chris Rebert at 9:51 PM

Ok, so I recently experienced significant problems trying to enroll in CSE 15L (Debugging Lab), but finally got them resolved and am now in the class.
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Let me give you a rundown of what happened:

When my enrollment time came around, all the seats for 15L were full, so I put myself on the waitlist.
Some time later, [...]

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