Kevin’s Blog

So, I decided to attempt the graduate level computer vision project for some extra credit. It’s due tomorrow and I’ve been working on it since Friday. I might not make it…

(Hey, they had a few weeks to do this.)

Update: I made it!

The older I get, the easier I fall for illusions — or so it seems.

Example 1: It’s a Small World

When I was in pre-school, I did not fear the small dancing dolls at the Disney World theme park ride.

When I was in lower school, the robotic dolls made me sick.

Example 2: Inverted Face

When I visited a Ripley’s Believe it or Not odditorium in lower school, I saw the negative impression illusions as just that, depressions in a plaster slab.

When I visted a Ripley’s Believe it or Not odditorium in middle school, I felt like the concave heads were following my every move.

So, I downloaded the MIT Scheme package. I played around a bit with the command line interpreter — ahh, the memories…

I don’t really have time to write a decent Scheme app atm. Gotta do homework.

I just had a dream about Lisp. I was in a programming class: CSE 144. This course doesn’t actually exist, but it would have come right after CSE 143, the second CS course required before you can apply to get into the major.

The bearded prof was talking about scheme. At first, I was dissappointed that I would have to use such a parenthesis-filled language to write the assignment, but the professor looked at me funny, and I suppose I must have said, “Hmm, I’ve actually been thinking about learning Scheme. How convenient!”

Then he gave us our assignment:

When you get a telephone call, the phone rings. Make new emails ring.

I left the class and spoke to some non-CS friend and he said that ringing emails would be annoying. For some reason, I ran back to the classroom to divulge my newfound worries to the class.

Before I could get back the the lecture room, which looked oddly like Mrs. Benzinger’s room at ODLE, I had the thought that woke me up: “I should blog this.”

Ok, don’t laugh, but I think I just got some insight into LISP. LISP is trees! You stick your inputs at the bottom of the tree (the leaves), and then they “flow” to the top(the root), where you get your answer.