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Thursday, Mar 29, 2007 - 23:33 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Cold Shorts

I thought I was feeling slightly depressed this part fortnight, but it turned out to be a case of the body leading the spirit. Panadol did nothing for my persistent flu, but a course of antibiotics and some Fenfedrin/Diclofenac from the neighbourhood GP got me back into good working condition in no time.

It's so much better to tackle problems without having to feel sick.

As Sven might say...


And I'm getting used to air-conditioning on those hot nights. Hey, work productivity drops by about 2% for every degree the temperature is above 25 degrees Celsius. It's for my own good.

Oh, and for any philo novices like me who wish to read Nietzsche, more specifically his Thus Spoke Zarathustra , I found T.K. Seung's Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul: Thus Spoke Zarathustra extremely helpful.

On a sidenote, the seats by the sides of the wall in the library were so comfy that even at 10 a.m., I daresay that half of their occupants were asleep reclined in them. Then there was this librarian and her supervisor who participated in a rather comic skit - the ostensibly new librarian had a habit of hitting the books audibly against the trolley while she was rearranging them, to which her exasperated supervisor told her none to politely not to "bang the books". The funny thing was that this was repeated half a dozen times at least, whereby the supervisor finally asked the question I was expecting - "You understand English or not?"

Don't know how to deal with these situations where the other party is not defiant, but just cheerfully agrees "Yes Yes Yes" and continues doing his own sweet thing. Perhaps this is more common in Asian societies where it is considered impolite to disagree outright?


Boid = Bird-oid

Finally, Wednesday's presentation on flocking Boids was one of the few I ever really had fun with, since the topic was itself interesting, and not least since I had a program to demonstrate the concept too. When the lecturer asked me how long I took to code it, I internally debated on whether to be more humble or honest, and went for the latter - it did take me just Tuesday afternoon. Download the executable and presentation (2.01 MB).

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