Last SLog and a partial solution for a problem?

Well class is over, I hope I kept enough slogs to get marked D:

I've been thinking about Thursday's problem: Product of sums
And i came to the conclusion that the list with the highest product would be the list with the highest number of unique integers. Excluding lists that include 1.
Sadly I'm handicapped in math so I have no idea how to put that in mathematical notation.
Whoever bothered to read my blog might've noticed that I don't write much. I actually don't talk much, there's nothing going on in my head most of the time :)

Well that was a good class, not as hard as I thought it was going to be, hopefully the final exam isn't that hard.

I'm done. Time to study. Toodles :P

I lied....

Turns out I have to write two more blogs. well this is 1/2.

Haven't started on A3 yet....actually technically yes we did start, but I don't think reading the questions count as starting.

So turns out paradoxes cannot be solved.. which makes sense, because if they were we would've built time machines a long time ago.

Did you know Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travelers? Nobody showed up.

Which means the halting problem is unsolvable < maybe I should put this in proof form for proving (i mean disproving?) the halting problem

Everything is smooth for now, time to actually start on A3.
ONE MORE TIME I SHALL WRITE. ONCE
MORE.

Last week incoming

So I got test 2 back, did everything perfectly/ but got 17/19 because of an error the T.A who marked my test made. Either way I'm too lazy to write up a remark request for 1 extra percent...

Bog O notations just keeps getting better, so far its brilliant; I understand everything.
Interested in next weeks topic though, the idea of attempting to solve seemingly unsolvable algorithms interest me. *starts dreaming : wouldn't it be cool if I solved one of these algorithms? maybe I'll get noticed all around the world!
*snap back to reality
MUST.GET.GOOD.MARKS

Since this is about the most free time I've had in months, I decided to look through other classmates blogs
This one : onesixtyfivest.xanga.com is absolutely HILARIOUS, it's a very interesting blog to read hope everyone reads it, and hopefully mine....but mines a tad boring

I'M SORRY YOU HAVE TO READ THIS ONCE A WEEK(whenever i remember) LALLA

*back to ranting about other people's blogs

A lot of people seem to mention whoshavesthebarber.wordpress.com and I agree with them.
It's a very informative blog with a cool name xD
and after looking at quite a few blogs which only had one or two posts, I suddenly don't feel so bad about not writing one EVERY SINGLE WEEK(yes it's bad i know, i'm ashamed)

Anyways looking forward to solving an impossible problem and getting a nobel prize (does that even happen?)

I WILL WRITE ONE MORE BLOG. ONE. MORE. by Wednesday.

Long Time no see

Prepping for test 2, last two weeks were just hell, pelted by midterms one after the other. This is my last midterm. So far A2 was pretty good, the last proof was pretty hard to get and we didn't have enough time to complete it so not expecting anything good on that. Since then I have gotten better at proofs and hopefully I'll do well on the test tomorrow.

Counting steps and Big O notations.... counting steps is easy enough, possibly because of my programming background, but converting them into formulas is weird; not good at math...not even addition. Learned a new notation last week in the tutorial that big E sum notation, comes in pretty handy when finding worst case for nested loops.

The proofs regarding Big O notations don't seem to be that hard, they all make sense no more mathematical voodoo to worry about, hopefully this last bit of class would be easy because I'm in familiar territory.

Happy with test ONTO READING WEEK

Well got my test back... exceeded my own expectations. Doing more proofs, kind of getting the hang of it still don't know where the main body just appears from MORE MATH HOCUS POCUS.

I have nothing to write about D:

lul time to enjoy reading week. Bai.

WHERS MY TITLE!!??

Well, that test wasn't so bad. Messed up a few list comprehensions, didn't even use the cheat sheet D: but everything went well.

Proofs are coming along nicely, the formatting is easy to follow. I guess coming up with the ACTUAL proof is going to be hard because i'm sitting in class wondering where did that 2k +1 come from?
To Do: Learn some mathematical hocus pocus for this unit.
At the beginning of the course I was complaining "Why is this a logic course if it doesn't make sense?". After some careful reconsideration and factoring in all the concepts we have learned such as vacous truth, tautology and contradictions; this course still does not compute. Maybe I need to get a hammer and hammer in the CSC165 nail farther down into my brain.

Everything is slowly sinking in, I just hope we have enough time to grasp the concept of proofs before the next test/assignment.

Not Studying => Failure

Already losing it. I've started talking in symbols, one strategy to get the concept of writing and expressing in symbols through to my brain. Saw the correct answers for A1...not feeling so confident anymore about our group mark. Everything is so confusing and detailed and for a non-native English speaker, extremely hard to understand. I'm having trouble distinguishing the line between "and" statements and implications, when converting a statement from English to symbols they both look correct to me.

Mixed quantifiers are easier to understand and proofs don't seem as confusing as I thought they would be. Other than that class is going pretty smooth, even figured out the recursive folding pattern in-class.