OxfordCompSci

3rd Year Computer Science student at Magdalen College - if you want to know about studying CompSci at Oxford, follow and ask away :) Opinions are my own

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There is a special place in hell for people who leave proofs in textbooks as an exercise for the reader.

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@whitneyarner @skittledog I dunno, that necklace could be a Magic Item…

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Well, "Fun Machine" takes the cake really.

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"Woo! Let's go down the Fun Pipe!" "Yaaaaayyyyyy!!!"

Oh wow, that sounds actually a bit disturbing… um.

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"FunFail" and "FunMaybe" are close contenders, but I just can't see "FunPipe" without smiling and imagining some sort of sparkly flume

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So in Principles of Programming Languages we're writing interpreters for a language called "Fun". This had led to great amusement in notes

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Accidentally writing "Kasterborous" instead of "Kerberos" in Security notes… #compsciwhovianproblems

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Ah, Security. Where every statement ends "… probably" and "trusted" is defined as "someone who can hurt you". How I've missed your paranoia

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My habit of acronymising chapter names for brevity continues to amuse with "Alternative Signature Schemes"… #revision #maturity

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Even if it does cause "We want to break the encryption so we can get incredibly rich" to be in my notes

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I mean, in a proof I'm likely to say "we want to prove", and in a program I might say "we want to sort", so "we want to break" is logical?

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Does it say more about me or my note-taking style that I refer to an agent doing something as "we", even if it's the Enemy in Security?

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Ah, finally finished writing up notes for a subject. *looks back at first page of notes* *fails to recall any of it* #sugar

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"Recall that [X]" and "[X] is trivial" are the most irritating things to find in notes… grr… #revision

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That "OH I GET IT!" moment. It's often rare, but it's always sweet. #revision

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Back in Oxford after a short break for more revision and project work before #finals next term… blissfully ignoring ALL the election faff

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So the 3rd Year Project Report is probably the most extended (factual) writing I've done since Y13…

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Update #4: Someone rounded the corner as I went into the kitchen. Correct decision was made.

That's enough adventure. *back to books*

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Update #2: there are gardeners outside the staircase. They would see… and they'd judge… o.o #theplotthickens

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Update on Blanket-Cape-Conundrum: I've decided it's fine if nobody sees.