April 2020 Archiv

Preparing slow and using fast.

  • 2020-04-20

Often taking longer than expected:

  • cooking
  • writing
  • thinking

Often taking shorter than expected:

  • eating
  • reading
  • doing

How long can you stand the heat?

  • 2020-04-19

The window doesn't open, and the fan is broke,
And my face is turnin' blue.
I haven't been in a crowd like this
Since I went to see The Who.
Well, I should'a got off a couple miles ago,
But I couldn't get to the door.
There isn't any room for me to breathe.
Now we're gonna pick up more, yeah!

"Weird Al" Yankovic: Another One Rides the Bus

Sol(d)itaire.

  • 2020-04-18

Realitäts-Update der Woche: Unter Windows 10 enthält nun sogar Solitaire Werbung. Mit Videos.

Rain or Shine.

  • 2020-04-17

And now we learn: this only covered the weather.

A Star.

  • 2020-04-16

I introduced the A* notation with the thought that our algorithm (A*) was better than any other algorithm, better than anyone else's algorithm A, and we're gonna prove it!

Peter Hart, as cited in A* Search: What's in a Name? by James W. Davis, Jeff Hachtel (https://doi.org/10.1145/3326600)