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మ‌న‌కు న‌చ్చిన వంట‌కం తింటాం. న‌చ్చిన సినిమా చూస్తాం. న‌చ్చిన నాయ‌కుడికే ఓటేస్తాం. అలాగే న‌చ్చిన నాయ‌కుడు స‌భ పెడితే వెళ్తాం. న‌చ్చ‌క‌పోతే వెళ్లం! అంతేగానీ, ఫ‌లానా నాయ‌కుడి స‌భ‌కు ఎవ‌రో వెళ్లొద్దంటే మానేస్తామా! అలా చెప్ప‌డానికి వారికున్న హ‌క్కేంటి అని ప్ర‌శ్నిస్తాం క‌దా! ఇప్పుడు ఇదే ప్ర‌శ్న ఆ ఇద్ద‌రు తెలుగుదేశం మంత్రులపై సంధించాల్సిన ప‌రిస్థితి వ‌చ్చింది. విప‌క్ష‌నేత జ‌గ‌న్మోహ‌న్‌రెడ్డి…

Tuesday:

2pm commnets exam. Got stochastics exam back at the end

5pm worked on jlab

6pm operating systems, reviewed the final and got our grades

6:30pm more jlab

Wednesday:

10am discrete math exam. It was a fair exam. Also in the middle of the test, someone's MP3 player started playing really loud music and everyone looked at this one guy and he just had a look that was like "it's not me, why are you looking at me?" and it was kinda hard to concentrate. Then after about ten minutes someone just said "can someone turn that off?" and it turns out it was him. Though something similar happened to me once in high school and I didn't know it was my mp3 player but it wasn't during an exam or anything

noon, jlab. Scheduled for 2-5pm, though the professor was late as usual. Like last year and the year before, he was administering two exams (programming languages and comp.arch) and one class of project presentation at the same time. It's interesting being on the third year of this because we've gone through it the past two years since everyone had those classes and we get to see how the underclassmen think the same things we did a year or two ago. Just like last year, the comp.arch projects didn't work so he gave them an extension until Friday, same as when we had to take the class.

When he finally showed up, two groups presented their working projects, and three groups didn't really have theirs working (including ours). The issue was mainly about the mic and mic pre-amp as a requirement. There were no working microphones in the lab, meaning you had to solder your own tiny electret microphone (which we did) or bring in your own, so it was hard to test it without those.

There was supposed to be a meeting at 6:15pm about the summer internship thing but there was a class in the ulab and so v and I weren't sure when it was. At 7, as the professor was leaving, we caught up with him and he told us about the internship, it seems really involved and uses all these programming things I'd heard of but never actually used, so I guess that would be cool to do, since I don't particularly care about the money as much as getting experience with actual things

anyway, back to the lab at 7:15pm-ish, and the professor was gone, which means we'd have to present on Friday. We got the electret microphone working, which surprised me because it's so tiny and flimsy and has a paper cone that I folded and taped together and haphazardly soldered a battery pack on it (one that holds 4 batteries but only uses 2) and yet it's a working microphone. I dunno, I think that's kinda amazing. The issue being that if we turn the mic volume up, the rest of the audio goes down for some reason, but we'll call that a feature. Also we need a box.

8pm went home. Finals week is over, and all that's left is overtime: this project and the write-up.

9am discrete math, more on turing machines, the halting problem, P=NP, etc

11am commnets, had quiz on cross-layer design. Professor wanted to see one of the senior presentations so gave us an hour break, some of us (including myself) went to the presentation, which had something to do with microwave interference with wifi and detecting when to resume wifi communication?? Then went to icelab and there was free foo.

12:30pm back to commnets, went over homework

1pm went to microlab, helped v with dsa1-related homework, then figured out why I couldn't get time synchronization to work on my netbook

2pm stochastics, at beginning there was some discussion about modulating the sun. In actual lecture, learned something or other, related to wiener filters, then went over homework

4pm computer center, worked on software engineering project with c (m was not there due to sickness), found and fixed some bugs related to synchronization and tied games

7pm took subway home

Friday:

9am discrete math. More on formal languages and finite-state automata (also non-deterministic ones).

11am commnets, more going-over of homework and then some stuff about multimedia

1pm got okonomiyaki+takoyaki from otafuku and some bubblegum soda from frankie's kitchen, ate in microlab and checked some class listings

2pm stochastics, discussed the project (a part that no one thought to do because it wasn't explained well), then learned something or other, and it is apparently an amazing result and many things are based on it but none of us were excited except the professor

4pm computer center; finished up stochastics thing and worked on software engineering with group

6pm took subway home

did some things on arch linux in an attempt to better optimize things for netbooks

also changed some cygwin settings on windows to make it look nicer since I was getting really tired of that default cmd-based terminal from whatever version of cygwin I was using

watched korezom s2 ep3

now I'm wondering why I don't have my posts in bullet point format

Saturday:

worked on AI neural networks thing. Used gVim this time instead of the usual notepad++. It's nice.

went to restaurant with family for dinner

watched space brothers ep1

9am discrete math, got exam #2 back. Made quite a few errors but I felt like I probably should've gotten more points off but this is an ok grade. Then went over network flow problems; max flow and the max-flow-min-cut theorem

11am commnets, more link layer stuff - csma, link-layer switches & hubs

1pm went to microlab, worked on stochastics project

3pm stochastics, learned something or other. During break, got a ham&cheese sandwich at frankie's kitchen

5pm microlab, worked on stochastics project. Turned out pretty well. Was able to change the code that was taking 10 minutes to run 100 iterations to do the same thing in 20 seconds by doing a few things. Got pretty good results and we finished at about 10:30-11pm.