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[kosine90]

I went to the physics colloquium at Pomona today. The topic was "Gravitational Waves from Nascent Black Hole." (hmm.. what the heck is it?) Well, I didn't get what on earth the speaker was talking about. It's literally as though he's talking in a different language; which is actually true. (hyper-accreting black hole? failure of neutrino-

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[salimma]

Yap; it can be good to know what kinds of research are taking place in the field. Especially once you start having papers to write =)

The word 'colloquium' has positive associations for me this week.. my 8am class this Thursday is cancelled, and we have to attend a colloquium instead. Cool =)

[kosine90]

yeah, I really enjoy all of this :) (I think I love college!)

By the way, I had my CS midterm today -- wasn't really good, but ... wasn't really bad either, I hope. We're doing functional programming right now (it's fun! recursion, recursion, recursion...)

[salimma]

The fun part is when you have to convert a recursive function to an iterative one =) Do I hear 'accumulator' ? Haha.

Which functional language is used at Mudd? Scheme, or Haskell? Or even ML..

[kosine90]

hehehe.. there is this language that is developed by a Mudd prof called Rex. Supposedly, rex 'combined' different functional languages. I heard a bit about ML and Lisp. What's the most popular one?

by the way... what is it about foo and bar? a generic name for functions/variable?

[kosine90]

I think you should go!!! (screw chem! huahaha..) I guess it wouldn't take more than an hour, so it wouldn't hurt (hopefully..)

U r such a nerd :D

[adhira]

U are so funny! The seminars sound... interesting(?) You sound like you are loving your major... Anyway, we should start a 'jeek' club at each of our colleges... :D
Btw, do you have facebook? I heard Harvey Mudd was just added to it...
Bye!

Re: U r such a nerd :D

[kosine90]

I heard that too (how do you know that mudd just added it? from margie