Comments | orb2069: "If nothing else, I'm impressed by your sheer bloodymindedness."

orb2069

"If nothing else, I'm impressed by your sheer bloodymindedness."

Nov 30, 2008 18:15

About sixty-five million years ago(Spring '08 semester?), I was doing some homework for my Foundations of CS class, and I stumbled across this problem:48.7: Mouse and cheese. A block of cheese is made up of 3x3x3 cubes as in the figure (Imagine a rubik's cube). Is it possible for a mouse to tunnel it's way through this block of cheese by (a) ( Read more... )

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amblinwiseass December 1 2008, 13:39:08 UTC

See, shit like this is why I'm not a computer scientist.

orb2069 December 2 2008, 02:57:45 UTC

I can totally understand not loving this stuff. Nothing has made me come closer to becoming a janitor than some of these problems...

amblinwiseass December 2 2008, 02:59:32 UTC

...Oh, it's not that I don't love it! I just don't grasp it, not intuitively, the way all the people I know who are computer scientists seem capable of doing. A more accurate way of phrasing my earlier comment would've been "See, not being able to figure out shit like this very well is why I'm not a computer scientist."

orb2069 December 2 2008, 04:13:42 UTC

...You do realize this took me, like, 30 hours worth of work to come up with?

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poliscigrrl December 8 2008, 00:55:10 UTC

Also not a computer scientist here...30 hours of work? Wow. Good luck on finals!

orb2069 December 11 2008, 13:20:46 UTC

Yeah. I sometimes wonder if I'm obsessive enough for some of this stuff. :)

Last final gets turned in midnight tonight - It turns out I'm going to be done with the whole mess before the declared start of finals, mainly due to teachers who are either lazy, or have taught with a 'Devil take the hindmost' mindset and were done last week. Now if I could just figure out the last two problems...