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[alexr_rwx]

Hello LJ.

Two things! No! Three things, in decreasing interestingness! Four!

- My mother came to visit; we had a lovely time, drove all over the place, explored Stone Mountain, and went to the hospital for my CT scan on my arm... aw, so sweet :)

- Jesse Joe jessejoe came to see me at Octane, and we hung out and talked about stuff! Also, Humza's friend Dylan is enormous and really funny!

- I spoke with Mark, and now I'm officially getting hired on as a GRA. Beautiful things are on the way, in terms of JES. At least in this respect, Mark Knows What's Up.

- I got a Twiddler! I'm learning to use it, but it's a little flaky & I might have an older version! Maybe I'll send away for a shiny new USB one. Maybe I'll go talk to the wearables people again and see what they think.

This entry partly twiddled, mostly keyed left-handed :)

Comments

[rusty42.livejournal.com]

Beautiful things are on the way, in terms of JES. At least in this respect, Mark Knows What's Up.

i hope that's not the same codebase they were using in 2004, because it was a huge mess. a huge, slow, bloated mess.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Unrelated to the software, why did you take up that TA gig? No offense, but that really doesn't seem like your bag...

It's kinda slow, still -- but more polished. It might be a total mess under the hood, but maybe I can do some cleaning. Mark said he wants to replace the picture code, down deep...

[rusty42.livejournal.com]

well, it was in python, which i had just learned. and TAing that class gave me the impetus to change majors, once i realized that anyone could call themself a computer scientist.

It might be a total mess under the hood, but maybe I can do some cleaning.

yeah, or maybe they can get *another* 3911 team to 'clean' it... sweet christ.

Mark said he wants to replace the picture code, down deep...

having hacked on that before, i'm sure he does. but it won't make any difference if he wants to keep API compatibility, because it will still be SLOW SLOW SLOW because function calls are slow in python and slower in jython. and the picture code is all about iterating over pixels and calling functions on them.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*head asplode*

Unless we detect and optimize for the common case of "do this one little block on all the pixels"...

[rusty42.livejournal.com]

good luck. the jython compiler is a mess!