Real Winter
It's been awhile since I posted to this, so I figured now would be a good time. Also, Jarrod is away at ASPDAC in Japan presenting one of his papers, George is done with his Ph.D. and working at Lockheed Martin in Philidelphia, and Jin is out visiting George while her advisor is also away at ASPDAC, there's not much else to do.
So the new semester has started, and things aren't bad. The courses I'm taking are Cryptology, Intro to AI, and Microarchitecture. I'm mostly taking Cryptology to fulfill a degree requirement, but the content of the class is pretty interesting as well. So far it's been a lot on complexity classes, which reminds me of CS170. The homeworks we get are pretty tough, and that's a lot like CS170 as well. The good thing is that we can work on the homeworks in groups. The bad thing is that Kevin isn't here this time around to tell me all the answers.
I'm taking Intro to AI to fulfill another degree requirement. Unlike my other classes, Intro to AI is an undergrad level class, and it shows. We were talking about various puzzles in class, and my professor brings up Missionaries and Cannibals. To demonstrate how the puzzle worked, he had 6 students get up in front of the class to figure out the solution on the spot, and then act it out. What could have taken 5 minutes took about half an hour. Why am I waking up early for this class?
Microarchitecture is being taught by the same professor I took Parallel Computing Architectures with, Professor Austin. He's one of the most laid back professors I've ever had, which is both good and bad. It's good because there's not much work to do for that class, but it's also bad because I'm worried I won't learn much in this class, which kinda sucks because Microarchitecture is the only class I really care to learn anything about. The content of the class is geared towards modern computer architectures, with an emphasis on low power, reliability, and application specific designs. I think it should be pretty good.
The only other thing I really want to talk about is the weather. It is friggin' cold in Michigan, and after trudging through the snow for a week, I'm sick of it already. A few days back we even had an ice storm that left all the plants covered in ice that looked like a thin coating of glass. Yea, the snowy winter was novel for a while, but I am definitely missing that warm California weather now. I guess I'll be looking forward to that warm weather which won't be coming until, what, May?
So the new semester has started, and things aren't bad. The courses I'm taking are Cryptology, Intro to AI, and Microarchitecture. I'm mostly taking Cryptology to fulfill a degree requirement, but the content of the class is pretty interesting as well. So far it's been a lot on complexity classes, which reminds me of CS170. The homeworks we get are pretty tough, and that's a lot like CS170 as well. The good thing is that we can work on the homeworks in groups. The bad thing is that Kevin isn't here this time around to tell me all the answers.
I'm taking Intro to AI to fulfill another degree requirement. Unlike my other classes, Intro to AI is an undergrad level class, and it shows. We were talking about various puzzles in class, and my professor brings up Missionaries and Cannibals. To demonstrate how the puzzle worked, he had 6 students get up in front of the class to figure out the solution on the spot, and then act it out. What could have taken 5 minutes took about half an hour. Why am I waking up early for this class?
Microarchitecture is being taught by the same professor I took Parallel Computing Architectures with, Professor Austin. He's one of the most laid back professors I've ever had, which is both good and bad. It's good because there's not much work to do for that class, but it's also bad because I'm worried I won't learn much in this class, which kinda sucks because Microarchitecture is the only class I really care to learn anything about. The content of the class is geared towards modern computer architectures, with an emphasis on low power, reliability, and application specific designs. I think it should be pretty good.
The only other thing I really want to talk about is the weather. It is friggin' cold in Michigan, and after trudging through the snow for a week, I'm sick of it already. A few days back we even had an ice storm that left all the plants covered in ice that looked like a thin coating of glass. Yea, the snowy winter was novel for a while, but I am definitely missing that warm California weather now. I guess I'll be looking forward to that warm weather which won't be coming until, what, May?
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