connor @notwa@cybre.space

#introductions hi, i'm connor.

i'm interested in #programming, #machinelearning #ai, #hacking, #reversing, learning and playing with math. i enjoy writing #cpp, #python, and #lua.

sometimes i hack #zelda games for the #n64, but more generally i follow wherever my interests take me. i tend to avoid big projects because of that. i ramble a lot about whatever i'm working on or learning about.

i've helped my sister raise a dozen pet #rats! i also love #tea, #cats, #anime, and #music.

tapping triplets to random songs is more fun than it aught to be

blah I've been feeling down the last 24 hours and idk why. borderline crying. brains are cool

(actually i should've worded it more like this: "it's full of easy-to-miss special cases to handle equally easy-to-miss special cases")

thinking a little about parser stuff today. the one i wrote for "ciel" is pretty terse *but* it's full of easy-to-miss special cases throughout the code, to handle edge cases that i worked to think of. i'd like it if i could have the concepts more compartmentalized and parallel to the actual grammar without resorting to an opaque parser-generator.

there was also a teacher assistant at one point who thought i was saying "no" half the time that i actually said "oh" in response to something they had just told me :V

i don't really get why people say "what?" whenever i pause to think
or when i say "ummm"
not something that happens as much as it used to but still

it used to be that you could edit your own cookies to extend longer but i doubt that works anymore

websites should have text that appears when you check a "Keep me signed in" checkbox that describes why they won't actually keep you signed in

getting a location request from a website on my desktop is really bizarre since i don't think there's even anything it could retrieve more specific than my IP address which it already has

i'm sure this is already ten times what it costs to make

headphones i was looking at got bumped up a hundred bucks because lol why not

imagine if you somehow combined geometric algebra with galois fields… wait oh no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois_geometry

thinking about the PGA talk when he says "one lemon and one lemon always makes two lemons"… except in GF(2)

I guess I don't hate C++ but it sure makes every solution feel like another problem

I don't know what the trigonometric functions would achieve in this case though

wait, now that i think of it, we already do define a bunch by their Taylor series, and the exponential function in particular is very useful. so i guess that answers that.

speaking of, i was poking through a complex number library and was reminded that there are complex extensions of many functions. would such a thing still make sense for multivectors of many reals? would they be useful?

i think this account is just "things i think that are 'funny' but not ha ha funny" at this point

i've never looked into why, but it is a little funny that complex numbers, being made of a real part and an imaginary part, have the names that they do. they sound like lavish words a newspaper would use.